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

[Pilar Tugores Ferra]

I'm happy I succeeded in calculating shortest distance!
nncross () is great and distmap () really cool! 
Thank you all! :)



Mª Pilar Tugores Ferrà
PhD Student
Instituto Español de Oceanografía
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
Muelle de Poniente s/n
07015 Palma de Mallorca
Baleares, España
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-----Mensaje original-----
De: r-sig-geo-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] En nombre de Alex Mandel
Enviado el: 20 May 2009 14:33
CC: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
Asunto: Re: [R-sig-Geo] shortest distance from points to polylines

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
> 
> 
> Mª Pilar Tugores Ferrà

This is more straightforward if you use GRASS.
v.distance

I seem to recall a library to allow you to connect and run GRASS
commands from R, but maybe google or someone can elaborate.
http://grass.osgeo.org/

Alex

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