Peter There may be other alternatives, but this is one of the functionalities in an external software (terralib) that the aRT package tries to make usage.
The aRT web page has one example: www.leg.ufpr.br/aRT Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr LEG (Laboratório de Estatística e Geoinformação) Universidade Federal do Paraná Caixa Postal 19.081 CEP 81.531-990 Curitiba, PR - Brasil Tel: (+55) 41 3361 3573 Fax: (+55) 41 3361 3141 e-mail: paulojus AT ufpr br http://www.leg.ufpr.br/~paulojus On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Peter Adler wrote: > Dear R gurus, > > I am very excited about all the spatials tools in R because they have > almost liberated me from ESRI products. One of the last things I have > yet to figure out how to do in R is to create buffers around polygons > (or just expand polygons). I searched the R-sig-geo archives (using > Google) for "polygon buffer" and "transform polygon" but haven't found > anything to get me started. Thanks in advance for your ideas, > > Peter > > -- > Peter Adler > Department of Wildland Resources > 5230 Old Main Hill > Utah State University > Logan, UT 84322 > tel: (435) 797-1021 / email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
