[R-sig-Geo] shortest distance from points to polylines

[Marcelino de la Cruz]

Hi Pilar,

One option could be converting  your point data 
to ppp and your  polyline to psp objects in spatstat.

Then, use nncross.


Cheers,


Marcelino


At 12:16 20/05/2009, Pilar Tugores Ferra wrote:

>Hi list!
>I need computing shortest distance from points 
>to a polyline layer (coast line).
>I've been searching all the morning a function 
>in R that can do this but couldn't find anything!
>Is there any R function that do this? Or can 
>anybody give me some hint about how it could be done?
>Kind regards!
>Pilar
>
>
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