Hi Greg,

That works but I can only chose one polygon and have its attributes identified.  I want to plot my map, then be able to pan and zoom, and chose several polygons to have their attributes identified (one at a time would be fine).

Should I be exploring maptools?

Thanks,
Ty

On Aug 16, 2012, at 6:33 PM, Greg Snow wrote:

You could try something like:

library(rgdal)
library(sp)
scot_BNG <- readOGR(dsn=dsn, layer="scot_BNG")
plot(scot_BNG)
tmp <- SpatialPoints(locator(1))
proj4string(tmp) <- proj4string(scot_BNG)
over(tmp, scot_BNG)
# or
tmp2 <- over(scot_BNG, tmp)
plot( scot_BNG[!is.na(tmp2),], add=TRUE, col='green')

Does that do what you want?

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Frazier, Tyler James
<tyler.j.frazier@tu-berlin.de<mailto:tyler.j.frazier@tu-berlin.de>> wrote:
Hello,

I am new to this group and am still working to figure out many things.  I have a kind of basic question, regarding using R and interacting with plots.  I have been exploring using the spplot in the sp package as a means to interact with plots, but haven't figured out how to use the function to identify specific attributes associated with an individual polygons.  My code is really basic, I simply

ea <- readOGR(".","ghana_eas_ft")
plot(ea)

is it possible to plot the map in a way where I can use the cursor in R to chose and identify attributes associated with a polygon.  Also here is the output of str(ea) which follows with a lot of information after the @polygons which I assume is part of the sp class structure.

Formal class 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 5 slots
 ..@ data       :'data.frame': 12438 obs. of  3 variables:
 .. ..$ EA_NOS   : Factor w/ 1133 levels "001-005, 340-342",..: 1110 986 985 976 982 983 978 741 974 975 ...
 .. ..$ REG_CODE : Factor w/ 10 levels "01","02","03",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 .. ..$ DIST_CODE: Factor w/ 18 levels "01","02","03",..: 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ...
 ..@ polygons   :List of 12438

I am wondering if there are newer packages which provide the identify function for polygons.  Currently I am referencing the Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R text.

Thanks!
Ty








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