[R] shapefiles manipulations ??

[Thomas Petzoldt]

justin bem wrote:

> cheers ,
> 
> I need help in shapefile manipulations. I have two shapefiles of my
> country Cameroon.
> The first contain 10 provinces and each province contains a certain
> number of administratives units. I dont have ESRI Arc view. I want
> to add a admistrative unit of the center province to the map with
> 10 province.
> 
> Is it possible to to take a peace of shapefile and combining it 
> to another ?

In principle yes using the "maptools" package.

Maybe, this thread from yesterday can give you an idea:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-September/077221.html

Thomas P.