Hi Didier, no, right now there's no such distance function in R, afaik. I must admit that it would be nice. -- Edzer
Didier Leibovici wrote: > Hi all, > I am still novice in using sp and/or Maptools and I find difficult to > locate basic tutorials and general description ... > I am probably some good source of info? > > My problem is very simple and I brlieve it covers some basic handling of > "GIS" data desirable in geoR: > > I would like to read some shapefiles of polygons( I know how to do that) > and loop through all the polygons to be able to compute the shortest > distance to one another (fix) polygon > e.g. distance to the sea or to a montain > -I had at one point a polylist but probably I need to have "consistant" > polygon for each element of the list ? > -is there any distance method supported by a class "polygon" which can > compute the distance to another geometry? > > thanks > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
