Creating Shapefiles in R

Question

I\'m trying to create a shapefile in R that I will later import to either Fusion Table or some other GIS application.

To start,I imported a blank shapefile containing al

Answer 1

Use rgdal and writeOGR. rgdal will preserve the projection information

something like

library(rdgal)

shape <- readOGR(dsn = 'C:/TEST', layer = 'blank_ct')
# do your processing
shape@data = data.frame(shape@data, data2[match(shape@data$CTUID, data2$CTUID),]) #data2 is my      created attributes that I'm attaching to blank file
shape1 <-shape[shape$CMAUID == 933,]
writeOGR(shape1, dsn = 'C:/TEST', layer ='newstuff', driver = 'ESRI Shapefile')

Note that the dsn is the folder containing the .shp file, and the layer is the name of the shapefile without the .shp extension. It will read (readOGR) and write (writeOGR) all the component files (.dbf, .shp, .prj etc)