[R-sig-Geo] Vector to raster conversion...

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Question:

    If I have a polygon shapefile, and I want to rasterize each polygon 
given a certain grid cell resolution, is there a way to do this 
completely within R?  I'm considering porting our vector<->raster bridge 
"starspan" (http://starspan.casil.ucdavis.edu/doku/doku.php) to R code, 
but this is a critical portion of the algorithm.  If the answer is "yes" 
-- does that answer include "weird" polygons like donuts?

--j

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Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
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