[R-sig-Geo] polygons to arcs?

[Tim Keitt]

Thanks for the pointer to unionSpatialPolygons. I solved hull problem,
but in a one-off hackish way. I should have looked through maptools a
couple of hours ago...

THK

On 3/15/07, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Tim Keitt wrote:
>
> > Is there an 'sp' function that takes a polygon as its argument and
> > returns a set of line objects corresponding to the arcs in the
> > polygon?
>
> Edzer asked a similar question a couple of days ago - the state of play
> is not very encouraging:
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2007-March/001856.html
>
> >
> > Or better yet, a function that given a set of polygons, returns the
> > hull? (ie the set of singleton arcs after applying the polys to arcs
> > function)
>
> But if the problem is to take a union of contiguous polygons,
> unionSpatialPolygons() in maptools using the gpclib package can do it, but
> not from the arc topology.
>
> Roger
>
> >
> > THK
> >
> >
>
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