[R-sig-Geo] package for writing shapefiles from SpatialPolygons?

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Michael Sumner wrote:

> 
> > What is a shapefile? It has a *.shp, a *.shx, _and_ a *.dbf at least. So 
> > you can't go from a SpatialPolygons object to a shapefile, it has to be 
> > SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, even if the only column in the data frame is 
> > just a holder. So create a data frame (with row names equal to the 
> > Polygons ID values), make a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, and 
> > writePolyShape().
> >   
> 
> Oh sorry, I had missed that "writePolyShape" function.  It's aliased to 
> its read counterpart, and I thought I was seeing write.polylistShape.

I'll split it out if you like - in the help.start() browser based help 
system, each alias is listed separately, so you would have seen it there.

> 
> Thanks!
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