Hi,

Thanks for this - yes i was looking to do a Projection from Decimal Degrees
into spatial (xy) coordinates.

I shall have a look at the package you suggested.

Sam

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Tom Gottfried <tom.gottfried@tum.de>wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> Am 13.12.2011 13:27, schrieb Sam smith:
>
>  Dear List i have been provided spatial data in the format lat/lon and i
>> have realised that alot of functions in R require x/y coordinates i.e.
>> positive integers only.
>>
>
> as far as I'm aware, coordinates are kept in numeric/double.
>
>
>  I appreciate converting between the two is hard, taking into
>> account projection, especially on the global scale that i am working.
>>
>> However i was wondering if there was a package / function that any body
>> knew of that could do it? Or can arcGIS?
>>
>
> Could do what? Projection? In this case:
>
> library(rgdal)
> ?spTransform
>
> regards,
> Tom
>
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sam
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