maptools (version 0.6-5)

readShapePoints: Read points shape files into SpatialPointsDataFrame objects

Description

The readShapePoints reads data from a points shapefile into a SpatialPointsDataFrame object. The writePointsShape function writes data from a SpatialPointsDataFrame object to a shapefile. Both reading and writing can be carried out for 2D and 3D point coordinates.

Usage

readShapePoints(fn, proj4string = CRS(as.character(NA)), verbose = FALSE, repair=FALSE)
writePointsShape(x, fn, factor2char = TRUE)

Arguments

fn

shapefile layer name, without extension

proj4string

Object of class CRS; holding a valid proj4 string

verbose

default TRUE - report type of shapefile and number of shapes

repair

default FALSE: some shapefiles provided by Geolytics Inc. have values of object sizes stored in the *.shx index file that are eight bytes too large, leading the function to try to read past the end of file. If repair=TRUE, an attempt is made to repair the

x

a SpatialLinesDataFrame object

factor2char

logical, default TRUE, convert factor columns to character

Value

• a SpatialPointsDataFrame object

Examples

library(maptools)
xx <- readShapePoints(system.file("shapes/baltim.shp", package="maptools")[1])
plot(xx)
summary(xx)
xxx <- xx[xx$PRICE < 40,]
tmpfl <- paste(tempdir(), "xxpts", sep="/")
writePointsShape(xxx, tmpfl)
getinfo.shape(paste(tmpfl, ".shp", sep=""))
axx <- readShapePoints(tmpfl)
plot(axx, col="red", add=TRUE)
unlink(paste(tmpfl, ".*", sep=""))
xx <- readShapePoints(system.file("shapes/pointZ.shp", package="maptools")[1])
dimensions(xx)
plot(xx)
summary(xx)