[R-sig-Geo] How to do square buffers around spatial points

[Alexandre Villers]

You can try the rgeos::gBuffer() with capStyle='SQUARE'
p<-SpatialPoints(matrix(c(1,1), ncol=2))
plot(p)
plot(gBuffer(p, capStyle="SQUARE",width=0.1), add=T)

Would that fit you ?

regards

Alex

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