[R-sig-Geo] transformin multipart shapefile to singlepart shapefile

[Franziska Schulze]

Thanks, it is right, this program provides such features.



Am 18.01.2011 14:11, schrieb Barry Rowlingson:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Franziska Schulze
> <franziska.schulze at wiwi.hu-berlin.de>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a package in R that allows me to split multipart shapefiles in
>> singlepart ones? In my shape file there is a region that consists of
>> more than one parts. For my spatial econometric analysis, I only need
>> one of these parts as the other do not have a particular meaning in my
>> context. I read the shapefile using readShapePoly (package maptools).
>   You might find it easier to use a GIS package for this. Quantum GIS
> is open source, and has a Multipart-to-singleparts function in its
> Vector Geometry Tools menu.
>
>   www,qgis.org - cross platform, open source, reads and writes shapefiles.
>
>   the R method would probably involve deep hacking of the sp data
> structures unless someone has already written code to do it. At this
> point I expect an email from Roger B to arrive in my Inbox saying
> exactly that...
>
> Barry


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