[R-sig-Geo] downsampling a lines shapefile?

[Nick Matzke]

Thanks so much!  I've almost gotten rgeos to install, 
however I'm getting a peculiar error about a (successfully 
installed) other package, stringr:

"Error : package 'stringr' does not have a name space"

...any idea what that might be about?  Grateful as always!!
Nick


PS Full error message below...

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 > install.packages("/Users/nick/Desktop/downloads/rgeos", 
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/", NULL, 
type='source',
+ 
configure.args="--with-geos-config=/usr/local/bin/geos-config")
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
Loading ~/.Rprofile...
Currently viewed PATH:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/Applications/dssp:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Programs:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Versions/4.6/Headers:/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.6/Programs:/usr/texbin:/Applications/dssp:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Programs:/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Versions/4.6/Headers:/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.6/Programs
* installing *source* package ‘rgeos’ ...
geos-config: /usr/local/bin/geos-config
GEOS: 3.2.3
CPPFLAGS: -DHAVEUNARYUNION -I/usr/local/include
LIBS: -L/usr/local/lib -lgeos
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs
** arch - i386
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Loading required package: plyr
Error : package 'stringr' does not have a name space
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘rgeos’
* removing 
‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resources/library/rgeos’
Warning message:
In install.packages("/Users/nick/Desktop/downloads/rgeos", 
"/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/",  :
   installation of package 
'/Users/nick/Desktop/downloads/rgeos' had non-zero exit status

On 10/25/11 1:32 AM, Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Nick Matzke wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a shapefile with a number of line features. I can
>> load it and plot it. Is there an easy way to downsample or
>> smooth the shapefile to a coarser resolution?
>
> ?gSimplify in rgeos?
>
> Roger
>
>>
>> Thanks so much for your help,
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>

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