Hi Sylvian,
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:15 PM, sylvain willart <sylvain.will...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R users, > > I would like to draw map and import it in maptools/spatstat packages. > > The 'raw data' I have come from a web page (<map>...</map>) and are > basically a list of coordinates of a polygon. > > I would like to know how to import them in R; I checked the maptools > packages, but all the examples use existing .dbf files. > > I just have a (serie of) text file(s) looking like this: > > For example, for the French Region Burgundy: > > <area href="region.asp?reg=26" shape="poly" title="Bourgogne" alt="Bourgogne" > coords="208,121,211,115,221,113,224,115,225,120,229,122,232,128,251,125,255, > 130,256,136,266,138,268,148,267,154,263,160,267,168,267,180,262, > 175,256,178,254,184,248,184,243,187,237,187,232,185,234,181,227, > 171,216,171,212,166,211,155,208,149,208,135,211,132,213,125,208, > 121"> It is not clear (to me) from your example what kind of file this is. Maybe XML, it does not look like GML. readOGR() in the rgdal package may be a better route to explore, but you need to determine what file structure is first. > any idea welcome, > > sylvain > > (If anayone is interested with that type of data, they're available at > the INSEE website I can not easily find an example on this site. Perhaps you could provide a direct link to the file. Lastly, I suspect that the r-sig-geo mailing list would get you some better answers. Michael -- Michael Denslow I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON] Department of Biology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina U.S.A. -- AND -- Communications Manager Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections sernec.org 36.214177, -81.681480 +/- 3103 meters ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.