[R-sig-Geo] sp basics !

[Edzer Pebesma]

Hi Didier,

no, right now there's no such distance function in R, afaik. I must 
admit that it would be nice.
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Edzer

Didier Leibovici wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am still novice in using sp and/or Maptools and  I find difficult to 
> locate basic tutorials and general description ...
> I am probably some good source of info?
>
> My problem is very simple and I brlieve it covers some basic handling of 
> "GIS" data desirable in geoR:
>
> I would like to read some shapefiles of polygons( I know how to do that)
> and loop through all the polygons to be able to compute the shortest 
> distance to one another (fix) polygon
> e.g. distance to the sea or to a montain
> -I had at one point a polylist but probably I need to have "consistant" 
> polygon for each element of the list ?
> -is there any distance method supported by a class "polygon" which can 
> compute the distance to another geometry?
>
> thanks
>
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