get.cntdata {RArcInfo}R Documentation

Function for importing the contents of a CNT file into R

Description

This function reads and imports into R the contents of a polygon centroid information file.

Usage

get.cntdata(datadir, coverage, filename="cnt.adf")

Arguments

datadir Directory under which all the coverages and a directory called 'info' are.
coverage The name of the coverage we want to work with.
filename The name of the file in the coverage directory that stores the data (usually called 'cnt.adf').

Value

This functions returns a list with two elements. The first one is a data frame with the next fields (columns):

PolygonID The polygon itself.
CoordX An array with the X coordinates of the centroid.
CoordY An array with the Y coordinates of the centroid.
NLabels The number of labels this polygon has.


The second element in the list is an array with the label identifiers related to this polygon.

References

More information about this kind of data can be found at http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/docs/v7_bin_cover.html.


[Package RArcInfo version 0.4-7 Index]