Hi!

Is there some file with same name of the shapefile, but with the prj
extension?

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ester Polaina Lacambra <e.polaina@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This is going to sound quite silly, but I'm an amateur R user and after a
> while I haven't been able to find the solution for my problem...
> I've got a shapefile coming from ArcMap 10, with a Projected Coordinate
> System: World_Cylindrical_Equal_Area (I chose that one when I was measuring
> areas); and a Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_WGS_1984.
>
> I read it with R by using:
>
>  WCountries <- readShapePoly("myfile",ID="COUNTRY")
>
>
> When I use the expresion "coordinates(WCountries)" some apparently UTM
> coordinates appear. How do I know how R has calculated this? because
> it keeps saying:
>
>
>  Is projected: NA
>  proj4string : [NA]
>
>
>
> Thank you very much!!
>
>
> --
> Ester Polaina Lacambra
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Atenciosamente,

Raphael Saldanha
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