And I see that I am probably already be out of date! There is a nice article in R News Volume 5/2, November 2005, available from CRAN. -Don
At 1:41 PM -0800 12/29/05, Don MacQueen wrote: >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 -- -------------------------------------- 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
