Here's an example how a Lines object is built from several sets of points (meuse data, split by soil type):
library(sp) data(meuse) Lines(sapply(split(meuse[c("x","y")], meuse$soil), Line)) Note that meuse is used as a data.frame in this example; use as.data.frame on your SPDF to get it. I hope this helps, On 05/25/2010 04:16 PM, Paulo Eduardo Cardoso wrote: > Hi, > > How can one coerce spatial point to spatial line? > > I'm struggling to find a way of coerce a point SPDF object to Lines > based in a ID [TARGET_ID] field. > > Any idea will be very welcome. > > Formal class 'SpatialPointsDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 5 slots > ..@ data :'data.frame': 28 obs. of 8 variables: > .. ..$ ID : int [1:28] 462964 462990 463015 463034 463052 463069 > 463083 463102 463122 463144 ... > .. ..$ TIME_STAMP: POSIXlt[1:28], format: "2009-07-26 09:00:07" > "2009-07-26 09:00:13" "2009-07-26 09:00:19" "2009-07-26 09:00:25" ... > .. ..$ DAY_PERIOD: int [1:28] 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... > .. ..$ SEASON : int [1:28] 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ... > .. ..$ TARGET_ID : int [1:28] 108426 108426 108426 108426 108426 108426 > 108426 108426 108426 108426 ... > .. ..$ SPEED : num [1:28] 0.283 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.2 ... > .. ..$ HEADING : int [1:28] 134 1 179 179 179 271 123 179 179 90 ... > .. ..$ DISTANCE : num [1:28] 1.41 3 2 1 1 ... > ..@ coords.nrs : int [1:2] 7 6 > ..@ coords : num [1:28, 1:2] -8.71 -8.71 -8.71 -8.71 -8.71 ... > .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 > .. .. ..$ : NULL > .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "LONGITUDE" "LATITUDE" > ..@ bbox : num [1:2, 1:2] -8.82 38.73 -8.69 38.8 > .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 > .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "LONGITUDE" "LATITUDE" > .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "min" "max" > ..@ proj4string:Formal class 'CRS' [package "sp"] with 1 slots > .. .. ..@ projargs: chr " +init=epsg:4326 +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 > +datum=WGS84 +no_defs +towgs84=0,0,0" > > > Paulo Eduardo Cardoso > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo -- Edzer Pebesma Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster Weseler Straße 253, 48151 Münster, Germany. Phone: +49 251 8333081, Fax: +49 251 8339763 http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de http://www.52north.org/geostatistics e.pebe...@wwu.de _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo