[R-sig-Geo] shp to svg

[Marc Marí Dell'Olmo]

Thank you for your help!

I have used the following sintax:

map <-readShapePoly(...)
CairoSVG(file = "newmap.svg", width = 12, height = 12, onefile = TRUE,
bg = "transparent")
plot(map, lwd=0.1)
dev.off()

and it works perfectly.

Regards,

Marc


2011/3/9 Georg Ruß <research at georgruss.de>:
> On 09/03/11 13:22:19, Marc Marí Dell'Olmo wrote:
>> I would like to convert a map in shp (shapefile arcview format) format
>> to a svg format with R. Does anyone know how?
>
> You probably have to use readShapeSpatial (sp package) to get the data
> into R. Then it's likely to be something like a SpatialPoints or similar
> data frame which you can plot (or of which you can plot single layers)
> using spplot.
>
> I guess the plotting device would then be CairoSVG (Cairo package).
>
> I'm just guessing since you didn't provide further info. Otherwise, you
> may also try a decent GIS with a scripting interface to get reproducible
> results.
>
> Regards,
> Georg.
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> Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
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>