On Sunday, April 29, 2012, Daniel Arribas-Bel wrote: > Dear R-sig-geo list, > > I have succesfully installed 'plotKML' 0.1-6 under Ubuntu 11.10-32bit > running R 2.15. I run into an error when I try to replicate one of the > examples in the documentation, particularly that of kml-methods ( > http://plotkml.r-forge.r-project.org/kml-method.html). The first one runs > fine but when I try to plot a SpatialPixelsDataFrame: > > ## End(Not run) > # Plotting a SpatialPixelsDataFrame or a Raster* object > data(eberg_grid) > coordinates(eberg_grid) <- ~x+y > gridded(eberg_grid) <- TRUE > proj4string(eberg_grid) <- CRS("+init=epsg:31467") > ## Not run: > kml(eberg_grid, colour = DEM, file = "eberg_grid-0.kml") > > > > I run into the following error: > > Error in paths(show.paths = TRUE) : > > could not find function "shortPathName" > > > > In fact, simply typing 'paths()' returns the same error. A bit of googling > seems to reveal the method 'shortPathName' appears to only exist in the Win > version of R, but not for linux/Mac. > > Is plotKML supposed to work only under Windows? If not, am I mising > something? Is there any workaround? >
This package is still very much a work in progress, and will eventually work on all platforms. The lead package author, Tom Hengl, may be able to provide some insight. Stay tuned, Dylan -- Dylan E. Beaudette USDA-NRCS Soil Scientist California Soil Resource Lab http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo