Converting contours to shapefiles and export them
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 ekkehardt.altpeter at bag.admin.ch wrote:
Dear List members, I am running R 2.3.1 on a Windows 2000 machine. I have loaded the following packages: foreign, sp, maptools. I could load package shapefile as well, but this leads to conflicts with the packages sp and maptools. I have the following question I estimated by means of kde2d a 2-dimensional density based on a sample of points. I passed this estimation to contour. I would like to export the result to a shapefile with lines. I have loaded foreign, sp and maptools. Can you give me a hint?
?contourLines2SLDF ?writeLinesShape gets you there in two steps. Have a look at their examples.
The result of contour is a list which has a vector for x and y and a matrix for z mit dimension dim(x) X dim (y). Thank's a lot for your feedbacks. Ekkehardt Altpeter
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