[R-sig-Geo] WKT to sp objects

[Carson Farmer]

I've actually just started playing around with rgeos, and it looks
like it will do what I need. I'll try to push it a bit more this week.
The reason I was looking for an all R solution was that the code would
be running on a server somewhere that I won't have access to, and at
this stage the server doesn't have rgeos installed (and the admins
probably won't want to install it for little ol' me either). In the
mean time, I'll fiddle about and see what I can come up with until I
can convince them to install rgeos.

Carson

On 10 July 2010 19:00, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Carson Farmer wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a nice way to convert WKT strings to sp Spatial
>> objects? The list archives don't turn up anything conclusive beyond
>> the possibility of doing it using rgeos, but I was wondering if anyone
>> knew of a more 'stable', all R way of doing it?
>
> Please do try to support the rgeos effort, the code for reading and writing
> is there already, and is used in the testing suited ported there. The GSoC
> project is almost at mid-term, so the more developers trying functionalities
> the better.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roger
>
>>
>> Thanks for any hints or thoughts you might have.
>>
>> Carson
>>
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>> Carson J. Q. Farmer
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>> National Centre for Geocomputation
>> National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
>> http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
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-- 
Carson J. Q. Farmer
ISSP Doctoral Fellow
National Centre for Geocomputation
National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
http://www.carsonfarmer.com/