Go to CRAN, to the "Packages" page, do a simple search on the text "shape". It will quickly lead you to maptools tools for reading and handling shapefiles From there, I guess you'll have to extract the polygons from the structure that is returned by the function(s) in the maptools package. -Don
At 1:59 PM -0600 12/29/05, Charlotte Reemts wrote: >Dear R users, >I am using spatstat to analyze point patterns (tree locations). I would >like to import the shapefile with the study area polygons (six total) into R >and use it to create the window for the spatstat analysis. I do not simply >want to use a rectangle because the study areas spread out over 40000 ha. >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. >Thanks, >Charlotte Reemts > > >Charlotte Reemts >Vegetation Ecologist >The Nature Conservancy--Fort Hood (TX) Project >P.O. Box 5190 >Fort Hood, TX 76544-0190 >254-286-6745 >fax: 254-288-5039 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >[email protected] mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -- -------------------------------------- Don MacQueen Environmental Protection Department Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA, USA ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
