I am trying to convert a feature to data.frame using the fortify function from ggplot2 package. But I get an error message. For example, following the same code used by Hadley Wickhan, drawing an example of shapegiles from a polygon , I type the following line of commands:
require("rgdal")
require("maptools")
require("ggplot2")
require("plyr")
utah = readOGR(dsn="/path/to/shapefile", layer="eco_l3_ut")
OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile
Source: ".", layer: "eco_l3_ut"
with 10 features and 7 fields
Feature type: wkbPolygon with 2 dimensions
utah@data$id = rownames(utah@data)
Everything is working fine:
> str(utah)
..@ data :'data.frame': 10 obs. of 8 variables:
.. ..$ AREA : num [1:10] 1.42e+11 1.33e+11 3.10e+11 4.47e+10 1.26e+11 ...
.. ..$ PERIMETER : num [1:10] 4211300 3689180 4412500 2722190 3388270 ...
.. ..$ USECO_ : int [1:10] 164 170 204 208 247 367 373 386 409 411
.. ..$ USECO_ID : int [1:10] 163 216 201 206 245 366 372 385 408 410
.. ..$ ECO : Factor w/ 7 levels "13","14","18",..: 7 3 1 4 5 6 2 4 4 6
.. ..$ LEVEL3 : int [1:10] 80 18 13 19 20 21 14 19 19 21
.. ..$ LEVEL3_NAM: Factor w/ 7 levels "Central Basin and Range",..: 4 7 1 6 2 5 3 6 6 5
.. ..$ id : chr [1:10] "0" "1" "2" "3" ...
...
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However, when I try to convert the utah object using the fortify function from the ggplot2 package, I get the following error:
> utah.points = fortify(utah, region="id")
Error in UseMethod("fortify") : no applicable method for 'fortify' applied to an object of class "c('SpatialPolygonsDataFrame', 'SpatialPolygons', 'Spatial')"
I get the same error for all other features that I tried to convert using fortify; even when using code that worked fine in the past (before upgrading to version 3.0.2).
I have R version 3.0.2 running on a Mac with Intel Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM.