On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Roger Bivand <roger.biv...@nhh.no> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Francis Markham wrote: > >> Is there interest in something like this code for generating SpatialLines? >> I use a variation of this fairly regularly: >> > > If the geometry is simple, why not construct a WKT string and use > available functions? Try:
Because converting numbers to characters and then back to numbers gives me the shivers? It seems inefficient and prone to precision problems. I'd rather keep my numerics as numerics than be at the mercy of a decimal representation that I don't have much control over... Barry _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
