Re: [R-sig-Geo] Intersect & Plot a Polygon and wkbLineString

2009-02-17 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jim Burke wrote: Sorry, we seem to have misunderstood each other. Basically I have a county-wide set of roads called "major roads". Then originally I had an identically sized county-wide set of polygons of which I select (via R) a smaller than county-wide subset of adjac

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Intersect & Plot a Polygon and wkbLineString

2009-02-17 Thread Jim Burke
Sorry, we seem to have misunderstood each other. Basically I have a county-wide set of roads called "major roads". Then originally I had an identically sized county-wide set of polygons of which I select (via R) a smaller than county-wide subset of adjacent polygons and plot that subset. Th

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Intersect & Plot a Polygon and wkbLineString

2009-02-17 Thread Roger Bivand
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Jim Burke wrote: (Just stick to plain text, but don't use fonts or bold or stuff - keep it simple). I have a nice solid SpatialPologonsDataFrame and a new line file (wkbLineString) called "major roads.shp". MY QUESTIONS. *I would appreciate examples of* *a)How to merg

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Intersect & Plot a Polygon and wkbLineString

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Burke
Hi Everyone, Sorry folks, my email program, Netscape Communicator, cannot send text email correctly. So this attempt goes out in both html and text. I have a nice solid SpatialPologonsDataFrame and a new line file (wkbLineString) called "major roads.shp". MY QUESTIONS. I would appreciate exam

[R-sig-Geo] Intersect & Plot a Polygon and wkbLineString

2009-02-16 Thread Jim Burke
I have a nice solid SpatialPologonsDataFrame and a new line file (wkbLineString) called "major roads.shp". MY QUESTIONS. *I would appreciate examples of* *a)How to merge the intersection of a **SpatialPologonsDataFrame and a wkbLineString ** b)How to plot the result c)How to display the s