[R-sig-Geo] maptools/kmlPolygons not outputting all Polygon objects

[Phil Haines]

> Tomislav Hengl <hengl <at> spatial-analyst.net> writes:

> I've tried creating a KML file using the plotKML package and I did not 
> notice anything strange with Alaska:

Hi Tomislav,

Thank you for your reply, I was not previously aware of the plotKML 
package but am finding it very helpful. 

I did not mean to suggest a fault in the wrld_simpl data. I think my 
issue lies with the maptools:::kmlPolygons function which appears to 
access only the first Polygon within each Polygons object.

As far as I can tell this function
-Loops over the list of spatialPolygons
 -Loops over the list of Polygons for each spatialPolygon
  -Accesses only the first Polygon for each Polygons object

I believe that the final part should be a loop whereas currently it is 
of the form

polygon <- spatialPolygons at polygons[[i]]@Polygons[[1]]

I hope that this is of some help. I am very new to both R and these 
mailing lists but am trying to follow the rules as well as I can!

Thanks,
Phil Haines (RMS)

p.s. As an aside I have had to change the email address I subscribe with 
as my work email was filtering out all messages from this list. This has 
made it very hard to reply without breaking the thread so I am hoping 
that posting this message via 
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.geo will work.

I wondered if anyone had any advice for others in this situation? The 
only relevant post I've found on google is the following:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-August/111039.html