Hello,

I'm sure this is a well-understood problem.  I appreciate your patience.

I am attempting to use R as a visualization tool, pulling the data from my postgresql/postgis system.  I have followed the examples from this page:

http://www.bostongis.com/?content_name=postgis_tut01#20

All the software is working correctly, including RODBC so that I may issue queries to my database from within R.  My question is, what is a good method for plotting the results of a sql query?  For instance, "select * from towns" returns a column called the_geom, which is, I understand in Well Known Binary.  If simply wish to plot the borders of the towns in R, I suppose I have to convert this to a spatial polygon.  But honestly, I can't seem to figure this out.  Nor can I find references on line that take WKB or WKT and plot this coordinates in R.

So, I'm sure there is something fundamental that I am missing.  I look forward to learning from your suggestions!

-brian 
buddha_314@yahoo.com



 
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