Have a look at: http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
http://www.bostongis.com/PrinterFriendly.aspx?content_name=postgresql_plr_tut01 On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Tim Romel <tim.ro...@vistracks.com> wrote: > I have the need to bring spatial data into R from a postgres database. I > am > trying to do this right now using rgdal with a command similar to the > following: > > results=readOGR("PG:dbname='dbname' host='hostname' port='portnum' > user='username' password='pass' <password='p...@ssw0rd'>, layer="tablename") > > This works in bringing back all data from the entire table. However, this > is a very large table and I was wondering if there was a way to run a query > against the table instead of bringing back all data using readOGR. I have > found no examples anywhere and have even seen suggestions that it is not > possible. Is this the case? If there are other libraries that support R's > SP library that allow access to postgres that would be great to know too. > > Any help is much appreaciated. > > Thanks. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
