There is no particular requirement to start with decimal degrees in R. You could have started with their original projection, as loaded into R, and reprojected directly to your desired projection (i.e., without the extra step of passing them through ArcGIS).
By the way, this would have been a good question for r-sig-geo. -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 8/8/12 7:18 AM, "penguins" <cat...@bas.ac.uk> wrote: >Since posting this I've figured out the problem was due to the shapefiles >I >was reading in. As they were already projected they were in meters, as >oppose to decimal degrees. By opening the shapefiles in ArcGIS, >reprojecting >them to WGS1984 and exporting, I could then reload them in R in decimal >degrees before reprojecting to my desired projection. > >Thanks > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/map-axis-on-projected-shapefiles-tp4639554p4 >639596.html >Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
