aRTlayer-addShape {aRT}R Documentation

Add a shapefile to a layer

Description

Import a shapefile to a layer, without loading the data into R. It creates a static table to store the attributes.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'aRTlayer':
addShape(object, file, table, ID, length=10)

Arguments

object Object of class aRTlayer.
file File name, with “.shp”.
table Name of the table.
ID The name of the unique identifier of the table.
length The maximum length of id instances.

Author(s)

Pedro Ribeiro de Andrade

See Also

See aRTlayer-class to the description of this class. aRTtable-class to the description of this class. read.shape from maptools to load the file in R (it is important to find out which attribute is the id before import the data to a layer).


[Package aRT version 1.7-1 Index]