How to plot a txt data in a shape file in R?

Question

i have a txt data where each line is one lightning with lat, lon and intensity, i want to plot this upper a shapefile (polygon).

I cant read the shapefile, and i dont know how to plot the data upper the shapefile, anyone can help me? Maybe with some idea ..

Roman Luštrik · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-09 17:15:40Z

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Package sp is your friend here.

library(sp)

data(meuse)

str(meuse)

coordinates(meuse) <- ~ x + y
plot(meuse)

You could also could give package sf a try. See vignettes.

answered Nov 9, 2017 at 17:15

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i got sucessul in ploting the data ! thanks. But how can i plot this on the shape file? how i read and plot both?

@MatheusRegis have you tried searching the internet on how to read in a .shp file? For instance: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/19064/…