maptools (version 0.4-13)

write.linelistShape: Write a arc-type shapefile

Description

The function calls code from shapelib to write an arc-type shapefile from a list of matrices of line coordinates with no NAs.

Usage

write.linelistShape(linelist, df, file, factor2char = TRUE)

Arguments

linelist
a list of matrices of line coordinates
df
a data frame object
file
a file name of maximum 8 chararacters, numbers or the underscore symbol to be written, omitting the extensions *.shp, *.shx and *.dbf, which are added in the function
factor2char
logical, default TRUE, convert factor columns to character

Value

  • no return value.

Details

The function calls code from shapelib to write an arc-type shapefile (both the geometry file with a *.shp extension, the index file with a *.shx extension, and the database file with a *.dbf extension - see write.dbf for details of the data frame export within this function.

References

http://shapelib.maptools.org/

See Also

write.pointShape, write.dbf

Examples

Run this code
x <- 10 * 1:nrow(volcano)
y <- 10 * 1:ncol(volcano)
line.list <- contourLines(x, y, volcano)
vol.levels <- data.frame(alt=sapply(line.list, function(x) x[[1]]))
vol.ll <- lapply(line.list, function(x) cbind(x$x, x$y))
tmpshp <- paste(tempdir(), "volcano", sep="/")
write.linelistShape(vol.ll, vol.levels, file=tmpshp)
try1 <- read.shape(tmpshp)
plot(try1)

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