when you post this can you please remove the tiff file?  my supervisor
doesn't want me to let it out. sorry!

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Mehdi Khan <mwk...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> I imported the attached tiff file and converted the coordinate system to
> long lat and graphed it:
>
> californiatiff<- readGDAL("california1.tif")
> proj4string(californiatiff)
> > rasterprojection <- spTransform(californiatiff, CRS("+proj=longlat")
>
> however, when using the plot command for rasterprojection, I get a blob.  I
> can see the outline of the state of california and nevada, but rather than
> being able to see the geographic features, it is just a monocolor blob.  My
> suspicion is that since it is a list of coordinates and another column that
> contains attributes, I need to turn it into a polygon.  I've tried the
> following codes but none work:
>
> > rasterprojection2<-SpatialPolygons(rasterprojection)
> Error in is.vector(X) :
>   trying to get slot "Polygons" from an object of a basic class ("integer")
> with no slots
>
>  rasterprojection2<- Polygons(rasterprojection)
> Error in as.vector(x, "list") :
>   cannot coerce type 'S4' to vector of type 'list'
>
> Essentially, all I need to do is to connect the coordinates into polygons.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thank you!
>

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