[R] Reshaping geographic data

[G.Maubach at weinwolf.de]

Hi All,

I need to reshape an ESRI shape file: http://arnulf.us/PLZ and resp 
http://www.metaspatial.net/download/plz.tar.gz

I found an instruction for T-SQL Server:

https://blog.oraylis.de/2010/05/german-map-spatial-data-for-plz-postal-code-regions/

How can I do this using R?

Kind regards

Georg

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Here's my code so far:

download.file(
    url = "http://www.metaspatial.net/download/plz.tar.gz",
    destfile = "C:/temp/plz.tar.gz")

untar(tarfile = "C:/temp/plz.tar.gz",
      exdir = "C:/temp",
      compressed = "gzip")