[R-sig-Geo] doubt with readGDAL

[Roger Bivand]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, José Manuel Blanco Moreno wrote:

> Thank you very much for the info, and excuse my confusion: I have copied and 
> pasted different chunks of code while trying both the ascii file and the 
> geotiff, which can be obtained with:
> download.file(url='http://srtm.geog.kcl.ac.uk/portal/srtm41/srtm_data_geotiff/srtm_37_04.zip',destfile='srtm_37_04_tif.zip')
> However, I get exactly the same problem with both files when I set up the 
> output.dim argument.

Fixed rgdal submitted to CRAN, should appear soon. There was a similar 
problem in the Eastings - in both cases the offset was being multiplied by 
the decimated (coarser) cell resolution rather than by the appropriate 
value. The offset is now rescaled by the degree of decimation.

Roger

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> José M.
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