Great, I didn't know it... I just made a rapid try some time ago but
it failed because I didn't use the ""
I'm sorry for bothering, how are you using R with CGAL?
2008/3/31, Murray Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> See below. Haven't tried this yet.
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> Yes that is what CGAL stands for.
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> Murray
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> Hi Murray,
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> Regarding the first question, you can read into R first and then output
> it again. You could also call ogr2ogr using a system call like:
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> system("ogr2ogr normal syntax stuff")
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> cheers,
> Paul
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> G. Allegri wrote:
> > Hi Murray.
> > About the first question. As far as I understand, you're working in R
> > on a *imported* PostGIS layer (I suppose you use rgdal to do it,
> > right?). Then you would need to export it to a shapefile (easily done
> > with writeOGR). Why are you considering the use of ogr2ogr? As you
> > probably know, it's a binary callable from a command line, and it's
> > not possible (AFAIK) to do it from R...
> >
> > I dont' understand your second question...
> >
> >> Or even better could ogr be used to do this directly on a postGIS layer?
> >>
> > What do you mean?
> >
> > Giovanni
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> >
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