loading GML files into R

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Paul Hiemstra wrote:

Dear All,

I am using sp and gstat to interpolate radiation data from the Dutch
Radiation Monitoring Network. One of the goals of this project is to use
inter operable data formats, in this case probably GML (Geography Markup
Language). I have not found a package to parse GML files directly into R.
Is anyone aware of a way to read GML files into R?

(Assuming GML vector data)

Which platform are you on? If Linux/Unix/OSX, install GDAL with support in
OGR for GML vector files, and use the rgdal package; this should work, but
needs care in installing Xerces and other libraries. If Windows, use the
binary rgdal package on CRAN to read a file converted from GML to one of
the small range of drivers available - for example using the FWTools suite
of Windows binaries - see ogrinfo and ogr2ogr in that suite.

Roger

regards,

Paul Hiemstra
University of Utrecht

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