R quickstart, missing vignette

[micha]

In the R quickstart, there's a reference to a non-existent vignette: "shapefiles".

[micha]

Shall I just remove the reference to the missing vignette in the quickstart??

[hamish]

Replying to micha:

Shall I just remove the reference to the missing vignette in the quickstart??

It would be good to understand what it is any why it is missing first.

regards, Hamish

[wildintellect]

My research indicates the spatstat package contained the shapefiles vignette at some version in the past. It is installed correctly and loads, however vignette(package="spatstat") returns no vignettes now. So the package installed but without any vignettes. No idea why, but it supposedly has several according to various sites around the internet.

[micha]

Trying to do

install.packages("spatstat", dependencied=TRUE)

leads to some errors. OTOH, we have the regular maptools package installed, and it contains a vignette: "combine_maptools", with a 4 page coverage of importing a shapefile and doing some simple dissolving of features, and attaching attribute data. Maybe that would be a reasonable replacement for the missing shapefile vignette.

[hamish]

missing vignette("shapefiles") commented out in the quickstart in trunk with r10840.

Hamish