maptools (version 0.8-41)

sp2tmap: Convert SpatialPolygons object for Stata tmap command

Description

The function converts a SpatialPolygons object for use with the Stata tmap command, by creating a data frame with the required columns.

Usage

sp2tmap(SP)

Arguments

SP
a SpatialPolygons object

Value

a data frame with three columns:and an ID_n attribute with the named polygon identifiers

References

http://www.stata.com/search.cgi?query=tmap

See Also

write.dta

Examples

Run this code
## Not run: 
# xx <- readShapePoly(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1],
#  IDvar="FIPSNO", proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=clrk66"))
# plot(xx, border="blue", axes=TRUE, las=1)
# tmapdf <- sp2tmap(as(xx, "SpatialPolygons"))
# if (require(foreign)) {
# write.dta(tmapdf, file="NCmap.dta", version=7)
# NCdf <- as(xx, "data.frame")
# NCdf$ID_n <- attr(tmapdf, "ID_names")
# write.dta(NCdf, file="NC.dta", version=7)
# }
# ## End(Not run)

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