SOLVED, example from the "Nord-Pas-de-Calais" region:
############################################ v <- c(237,55,236,58,229,57,214,57,203,55,197,54,187,48,179,46,179,35,180,31,184,26,197,23,201,24,202,31,207,34,213,31,216,37,219,41,228,46,234,47,237,55) seqx <- seq(1,length(v),by=2) seqy <- seq(2,length(v),by=2) vx <- c() for (j in seqx) { vx <- c(vx,v[j]) } vy <- c() for (j in seqy) { vy <- c(vy,v[j]) } plot(vx,-vy) polygon(vx,-vy,border="red") ############################################ thanks for your tips, Sylvain Now, I just have to read it using maptools... 2010/3/3 sylvain willart <sylvain.will...@gmail.com>: > Hi > thanks for your reply, > I'll try to better explain my request... > the data do not come from a file with a specific extension, this is > just some lines I copied pasted from a source html file > > The web page is: > http://www.insee.fr/fr/ppp/bases-de-donnees/donnees-detaillees/duicq/accueil.asp > it displays an (interactive) map of France with all the regions > > to access the source: edit/source , or Ctrl+U in a web browser > > By the middle of the html source file, there is an html object called > map (<map> ... </map>) with a set of coordinates representing the > polygons of each region, > > These coordinates are just location of points: x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3... > that draw polygons. They are not proper longitude or latitude and > their "origine" is just the corner of the image the html file > generates... > > I am aware those are not "real" geographic data (That's why I didn't > post my question to sig-geo, it looks more like a problem of > graphics), but these are the coordinates one need to "draw" a map (and > eventually import it to a more specific package like spatstat) > > So, what I would like to do is: using those coordinates to draw such a > map, and eventually use that map for distance or area calculus (which > do not need to be extremely precise...) > > sylvain > > > 2010/3/3 Michael Denslow <michael.dens...@gmail.com>: >> Hi Sylvian, >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:15 PM, sylvain willart >> <sylvain.will...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Dear R users, >>> >>> I would like to draw map and import it in maptools/spatstat packages. >>> >>> The 'raw data' I have come from a web page (<map>...</map>) and are >>> basically a list of coordinates of a polygon. >>> >>> I would like to know how to import them in R; I checked the maptools >>> packages, but all the examples use existing .dbf files. >>> >>> I just have a (serie of) text file(s) looking like this: >>> >>> For example, for the French Region Burgundy: >>> >>> <area href="region.asp?reg=26" shape="poly" title="Bourgogne" >>> alt="Bourgogne" >>> coords="208,121,211,115,221,113,224,115,225,120,229,122,232,128,251,125,255, >>> 130,256,136,266,138,268,148,267,154,263,160,267,168,267,180,262, >>> 175,256,178,254,184,248,184,243,187,237,187,232,185,234,181,227, >>> 171,216,171,212,166,211,155,208,149,208,135,211,132,213,125,208, >>> 121"> >> >> It is not clear (to me) from your example what kind of file this is. >> Maybe XML, it does not look like GML. readOGR() in the rgdal package >> may be a better route to explore, but you need to determine what file >> structure is first. >> >>> any idea welcome, >>> >>> sylvain >>> >>> (If anayone is interested with that type of data, they're available at >>> the INSEE website >> >> I can not easily find an example on this site. Perhaps you could >> provide a direct link to the file. Lastly, I suspect that the >> r-sig-geo mailing list would get you some better answers. >> >> Michael >> >> -- >> Michael Denslow >> >> I.W. Carpenter Jr. Herbarium [BOON] >> Department of Biology >> Appalachian State University >> Boone, North Carolina U.S.A. >> -- AND -- >> Communications Manager >> Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections >> sernec.org >> >> 36.214177, -81.681480 +/- 3103 meters >> > ______________________________________________ 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.