[R-sig-Geo] Polygon to raster?

[Jonathan Greenberg]

I'm trying to hunt down a function that will take a polygon (derived 
from a shapefile) and "rasterize" it at a given pixel resolution -- any 
hints?

--j

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Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
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