Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, tom sgouros wrote: Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't mean to rant, but believe me, I've spent plenty of time with the documentation and it's really not helping. Partly this is a problem of R's doc format which treats package documentation as an alphabetica

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread tom sgouros
Roger Bivand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't mean to rant, but believe me, I've spent plenty of time with > > the documentation and it's really not helping. > > > > Partly this is a problem of R's doc format which treats package > > documentation as an alphabetical list of functions - whi

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, David Hugh-Jones wrote: Guys I don't mean to rant, but believe me, I've spent plenty of time with the documentation and it's really not helping. Partly this is a problem of R's doc format which treats package documentation as an alphabetical list of functions - which gives

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Guys I don't mean to rant, but believe me, I've spent plenty of time with the documentation and it's really not helping. Partly this is a problem of R's doc format which treats package documentation as an alphabetical list of functions - which gives me no idea where to start. This then interacts

Re: [R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread Virgilio Gomez-Rubio
Dear David, Probably the best way to start is by checking the HTML documentation. It should be installed locally but it is also accesible, for example, here: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/sp/html/00Index.html Hope this helps. Virgilio On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 18:48 +0200, David Hugh-Jone

[R-sig-Geo] API documentation?

2008-06-30 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Thanks David for his comment about dp. Quick question: is there any reasonably comprehensible API documentation for the "sp" package? I have just spent about an hour trying to get a list of points from a SpatialPolygons object. I eventually just printed everything out and found the data by hand, s

Re: [R-sig-Geo] thinlines equivalent?

2008-06-30 Thread David PINAUD
maybe you can try the function dp() in the package "shapefiles", which is an implementation of the Douglas-Peucker polyLine simplification algorithm. Hope it helps David David Hugh-Jones a écrit : Hi all I have a big dataset of points and am doing stuff on them that takes a lot of time. To sp

[R-sig-Geo] thinlines equivalent?

2008-06-30 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi all I have a big dataset of points and am doing stuff on them that takes a lot of time. To speed it up, I would like to use "thinlines" from RArcinfo, which basically makes the maps "rougher" by throwing away points. Is there an equivalent function for SpatialPolygon type objects? (I assume tha