[R-sig-Geo] subsetting polygon display

Edzer Pebesma edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de
Mon Nov 1 20:16:00 CET 2010


if object states is of class "SpatialPolygons" or of class
"SpatialPolygonsDataFrame", use

plot(states[1,])

you can find out by asking

class(states)

On 11/01/2010 07:42 PM, Peter Larson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> This is probably a completely stupid question, but how does one subset
> a polygon data set for display?
> 
> I have a file of states of a country and just want to display one of them.
> 
> Pete
> 
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