[R-sig-Geo] import sever txt files with one code in (R+SAGA)

[Anne Ghisla]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:53 -0700, Alessandro wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have several txt files for a forest structures analysis and I wish to
> import, get coordinates and convert in shape. I need eventually if this code
> is correct:
> 
> (files name: vegetation_2.txt, vegetation_3.txt, etc.etc.)

Hello Alessandro,

may I suggest to use list.files() {base} function to pick up the files?

the code would look like:

files <- list.files(getwd(), pattern="vegetation")
for (i in files) {
# extract coordinates
coordinates(file=i, =~X+Y)
# write as shapefile
writeOGR(obj=i, <other options>, driver="ESRI Shapefile"))
}

hope this helps

Anne Ghisla
Insubria University, Varese (IT)
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