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When it comes to geographic data, R shows to be a powerful tool for data handling, analysis and visualisation. Often, spatial data is avaliable as an XY coordinate data set in tabular form. This example will show how to create a spatial data set from an XY data set. The packages rgdal and sp provi...

rgdal ESRI shape files can easily be imported into R by using the function readOGR() from the rgdal package. library(rgdal) shp <- readORG(dsn = "/path/to/your/file", layer = "filename") It is important to know, that the dsn must not end with / and the layer does not all...