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Hello, I'm having problems reading a shapefile with read.shape (maptools). I'm absolutely sure my file is there, but I get "no such file". The wd is ok, since read.table for example does find the file. > getwd() [1] "D:/somedirectory/R scripts" > read.table("cities.shp") Error in read.table("cities.shp") : empty beginning of file In addition:

I am attempting to write what MATLAB does as : [S,A]= shaperead() which returns an N by 1 geographic array structure S containing geometric information, and a paralell N by 1 attribute structure array, A containing feature attribute information. How can this be done with R code I tried using shp<-readShapePoints() but this doesnt return the same structure that I am looking for. Please

Hello R Community, I have imported a dataset which contain X Y coordinates and would like to recreate a shape file after some data analysis. What i have done is to import some taxlot data and join them based on some criteria. I want to check to see how well the joining went by reviewing the results in GIS. A couple things. I cant seem to import a shape file correctly using the maptools

I am not sure a previous e-mail reached the list (no mail aknowledgement from R-boundle etc.). The question was how to write polygon or segment coordinates into a shapefile set or any other ArcGIS supported format. The library shapefiles seems to do something but the documentation is a bit beyond of my mind.... and I cannot get the meaning of the functions write**** and its application to the case

Hi, I have a problem that concerns combination of the package Maptools and Splancs I have 2 shapefiles that i want to manipulate (one of type point and one polygon).I import them in R using Maptools but then i can't estimate a quartic Kernel using Splancs. The package doesn't recognize the shapes (invalid points and poly argument).I don't know if this is an easy task but i have

Hi, I meet a strange trouble writing shapefiles with write.pointShape() from maptools. > write.pointShape(mylines[,5:9], file="Sxtplinshp", mycoordspt) Error in write.pointShape(mylines[, 5:9], file = "Sxtplinshp", mycoordspt) : shapefile names must conform to the 8.3 format It seems that the function request a special shapefile name spelling (conformed to 8.3

Hi list. I would like to know if someone had already successfully loaded and Arc/Info Ungenerated (.dat – extracted from http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html) file on R. I’m able to do so with shape files using maptools functions, but these ungenerated data are making me crazy. I don’t have any of ArcGIS tools (one of them probably can do that), and I can’t find any free tool that

Hi, I'd like to read a shapefile into a Map object. This is exactly what read.shape{maptools} is suppoed to do, according to the documentation I found in the link below. However, this doesn't seem to work library(maptools)x <- read.shape(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1])Error: could not find function "read.shape" I haven't

The main limitation of the shapefiles package that I put together is that it does not create shapefiles from R objects - rather it only writes shapefiles that have been read into R and manipulated within the constraints of the existing file structure. By this I mean that for example you can change the coordinates of points and write them back out. Or you can add a bunch of blank columns in the

A few years back, I wrote some code to plot maps with the maptools package. Now I am trying to reproduce my results, only to find out that maptools has been updated and my code no longer works. I've been able to fix the first part of it by forcing spb <- maptools:::read.shape("/home/sasha/Documents/maps/spb.shp") (as read.shape has been deprecated) but now when I do plot(spb,

Dear R users, I use R 2.4.0 on an iMac running Mac OS X 10.4.8, with a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. > sessionInfo() R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03) i386-apple-darwin8.8.1 locale: es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8/C/es_ES.UTF-8/es_ES.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices"

Hey, A basic question. Is there anyone that knows a good text on using the R packages map and maptools for R? I have read the references for both but having trouble getting started. What I want to do is to load a map (.shp file) and display statistics on this maps using colours. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, John

Dear list members, I am trying to use the maptools library to display geographical data. At the moment I have some trouble understanding how the " auxvar " variable is supposed to be used in the plot.Map function. I am using R Version 1.8.1 (2003-11-21) on Linux Looking at the plot.Map function itself, I see that it calls a color.ramp function (I am reporting only the relevant

Hola a todos. Estoy utilizando R , más concretamente los paquetes maptools y sp, para realizar mapas de España por comunidades y provincias y de Andalucía por provincias y municipios. El caso es que para el mapa de municipios en Andalucía, una vez leído el fichero shp con readShapePoly , si luego por ejemplo , quiero poner todos los polígonos de un color utilizando library(maps)

Dear R experts, I am new to the list and R software. I need to convert arcview file to Winbugs having R has middle package. Got from friends that it is possible following the steps: 1. Converting arcview shapefile to "cgm clear text file" 2. Downloading "convert.r" to into R 2.1 use source("convert.r") 2.2 convert("filename_cgm") without the

Hi, I am new to R and am a very basic user. I'm importing SHP files, adding plots of random locations within my polygon (these files have GPS data), and then want to save these plots (intact with added points) as KML files to look at in GoogleEarth (or possibly as SHP files which I can then convert into KML). This is as far as I've gotten (code below) and am lost as to next steps, Any

Hi - I'm trying to plot a map from a shapefile and then colour different areas of it depending on different attributes of those areas. A couple of years ago I used some code to do this that would plot a map in R from a shapefile (states within a country). It then uploaded a .txt file which had the same number of rows as the shapefile and one column populated with numbers from 1 to 8 which

Dear R experts, I'm using the adehabitatHR package in order to perform a kernel analysis and estimate the home range of my input data (GPS relocations of 42 individuals). I've done the analysis for one of the individuals and it worked perfectly (see code below). But now I'm trying to use a list and call the function lapply to do the same thing through all the 42 individuals (also see

Hi, we all know that R is powerful in dealing with graphics. I am now trying to use R to show some geographic attributes for a specific geographic area on a graph. For example, if I would like to generate a graph showing the population densities (in terms of the intensity of colors) for Illinois State by zip codes. I did some research; and it seems that package "maptools" is

Hi, I want to use map("state") and have the ecoregion shape (please see link) file projected onto this. ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/cec_na/NA_CEC_Eco_Level3.zip ftp://ftp.epa.gov/wed/ecoregions/cec_na/NA_CEC_Eco_Level3.zip Could someone please show me how; I have never messed with this sort of thing. Thanks. -- View this message in context: