Since you found readOGR, you might want to look at writeOGR. -Don
-- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 2/22/12 3:43 PM, "gztourek" <gztou...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am new to R and am a very basic user. I'm importing SHP files, adding >plots of random locations within my polygon (these files have GPS data), >and >then want to save these plots (intact with added points) as KML files to >look at in GoogleEarth (or possibly as SHP files which I can then convert >into KML). > >This is as far as I've gotten (code below) and am lost as to next steps, >Any suggestions or references would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in >advance for any help. > >Gabe > ># Initialize pseudo random number generator > > set.seed(700124) > ># Read vector representation of the map > > Kasur <- readOGR("Kasur3.shp", layer = "Kasur3") > > ># Plot points > png("Kasur.png") > plot(Kasur) > points(spsample(Kasur, n=100, type='random'), col='red', pch=0, cex=0.5) > dev.off() > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/How-can-I-save-plot-points-using-SHP-files-i >nto-KML-format-tp4412220p4412220.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.