R is very easy to get running--go to http://www.r-project.org/ and get the binary for your OS. Just open up Rgui or type rterm at the command prompt.
You'll need to look at the examples to get that library working for you. R has some strange syntax compared to other scripting languages. The first command in your R script would be: library(shapefiles) That would load the library for you. Some R peculiarities: indexing starts at 1 instead of 0, and the following will assign the value 1 to the object a a <- 1 You can also use a = 1 To get help type help.start() or to get help on a particular command type ?command Hope that is helpful! -Brian On May 9, 10:51 pm, thomfriedel <[email protected]> wrote: > Can I use this to preprocesses my Shapefiles or KML files on a Linux > system? Because it is javascript it does not look like it would do > that. > > I found this wirtten in a language called R, but it was not clear if > source was available, or how much work it would be to get R running. > > http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/shapefiles/html/shapefiles.html > > tom > > On May 9, 9:56 am, bratliff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You may find > > > www.polyarc.us/packer.js > > > www.polyarc.us/pack > > > useful for both point reduction & encoding. It is similar to the > > Douglas-Peucker algorithm with several optimizations discussed > > recently in other threads. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
