[R] Coordinate systems for geostatistics in R (imicola)

Patrick Giraudoux patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr
Sat Aug 23 12:34:36 CEST 2008


>  If you use the spatial objects provided by the 
> sp-package (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sp/vignettes/sp.pdf) 
> you transform your data to other projections using the spTransform package.

Thus you will need the rgdal package in complement (it actually includes 
spTransform). This function is extremely convenient: you can manage 
coordinate transformations extremely easily for common systems (WGS84, 
UTM) within the R environment.





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