[R-sig-Geo] LINESTRING to vector in R

[Edzer Pebesma]

st_as_text(st_geometry(rivers[1,]))

On 22/10/2022 13:06, Nick Wray wrote:
> Hello I have downloaded a large shapefile dataset of UK rivers and I want
> to isolate (as an ordinary R string) the LINESTRING values for particular
> lines, corresponding to rivers
> Looking at the first line I can isolate the geometry by
> 
> Hello I have downloaded a large shapefile dataset of UK rivers and I want
> to isolate (as an ordinary R string) the LINESTRING values for particular
> lines, corresponding to rivers
> 
> Looking at the first line I can isolate the geometry by
> 
> 
> 
> st_geometry(rivers[1,8])
> 
> 
> 
> Geometry set for 1 feature
> Geometry type: LINESTRING
> Dimension:     XYZ
> Bounding box:  xmin: 462010.6 ymin: 1213039 xmax: 462306.5 ymax: 1213199
> z_range:       zmin: 0 zmax: 0
> Projected CRS: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
> 
> LINESTRING Z (462306.5 1213048 0, 462275.4 1213...
> 
> 
> What I need is all the values in the LINESTRING as a common or garden R
> vector, but I cannot find a way to do this.
> 
>   Does anyone know how?  Thanks, Nick Wray
> 
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