[R-sig-Geo] Editing Shapefiles

[Nicholas Lewin-Koh]

Hi Susumu
Those are some very nice examples! Would you consider packaging some of
those functions 
and contributing them to maptools? I especially like the cartogram
example.

Nicholas

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> From: Susumu Tanimura <stanimura-ngs at umin.ac.jp>
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> Dear Malcolm and R-sig-Geo members
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> Map object from shapefiles with read.shape() can be merged or
> clipped.  Here are examples written in Japanese but the code is
> universal.
> 
> For clipping
> http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/index.php?ShapeFile%A5%E9%A5%A4%A5%D6%A5%E9%A5%EA
> 
> For Union and Dissolve
> http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/index.php?cmd=read&page=Rmap%A4%F2%BB%C8%A4%C3%A4%BF%C3%CF%BF%DE%C9%BD%BC%A8&word=Rmap#content_1_35
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> In addition, You can use shapefiles from R to GoogleEarth.
> http://www.okada.jp.org/RWiki/index.php?GoogleEarth%A4%C8R
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