Jonas, SAGA (GUI) can read and write shape files. This is the native vector format it uses. Maybe this is confusing, but RSAGA is NOT a GIS package under R, but only a link to send things from R to SAGA and back.
Here are some examples: http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Export_maps_to_GE#Polygon_maps HTH, T. Hengl http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/t.hengl/ > -----Original Message----- > From: r-sig-geo-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-sig-geo-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf > Of von Rütte Jonas > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 11:31 AM > To: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R-sig-Geo] Importing ESRI Shapefile into RSAGA > > Hello! > > > > I have a more general problem > > Is there a way to import ESRI shapfiles into RSAGA? > > And if yes how can I then import it to SAGA GIS since it seems to not support > the ESRI format. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Jonas > > Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics > > ETH Zurich > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo