Hi, with the raster package you could use: polygons to raster (?polygonsToRaster), converting the Costa Rica shapefile to a raster and then use mask (?mask).
Best Johannes On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Manuel Spínola <mspinol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list members, > > I download bioclim data in a raster format (estension: .bil) and I would > like to clip the variables to a ploygon stored as a shapefile (Costa > Rica outline). > How can I do that? > > I read the raster file like this: > > x <- readGDAL("bio1_23.bil") > > Thank you very much in advance. > Best, > > Manuel > > > -- > *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* > Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre > Universidad Nacional > Apartado 1350-3000 > Heredia > COSTA RICA > mspin...@una.ac.cr > mspinol...@gmail.com > Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 > Fax: (506) 2237-7036 > Personal website: Lobito de río > <https://sites.google.com/site/lobitoderio/> > Institutional website: ICOMVIS <http://www.icomvis.una.ac.cr/> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo