[R-sig-Geo] CRS for the European Biogeographical Regions in R

[Barbara Szabó]

Hi,
i`d be interested if somebody would help me in the CRS for the European
Biogeographical Regions data base.

I have coordinates, already saved as SpatialPolygon in lat-long

sp_poly at bbox

     min      max

x 40.933 59.30397

y 13.633 27.53300
I have to check in which polygons this coordinates belong to. The function
over() should do the job, if both data sets are in the same CRS.


The shape file of the biogeographical regions can be downloaded at
http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/biogeographical-regions-europe

The CRS is NA when reading it with
library(maptoos)
eea <- readShapeLines("BiogeoRegions2011")
The data lays in the bbox of 943619 489768 8663038 7880872
On the website there is an information on the CRS:
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:6.11:4326

The problem seems to be to specify the correct CRS in eea. First I do not
know the CRS and second if I assume one, I get an error:
proj4string(eea) <- CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84")
Error in proj4string. Geographical CRS given to non-conformance data:
8663038.09057 ....

Any ideas which bringing me nearer to a solution are very welcome - thanks
a lot in advance.

Best,
Barbara

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