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An R file to split shapefiles from the OS
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shpSplitOGR2OGR.R
library(foreign)
dfblocks = read.dbf('/Users/danielpett/Documents/research/osData/england/parish_region.dbf', as.is=TRUE)
unitID = unique(dfblocks$UNIT_ID)
unitID <- as.data.frame(unitID)
for (i in 1:nrow(unitID)){
id <- unitID[i, "unitID"]
strOGR = paste(
"ogr2ogr -where 'UNIT_ID = ", id, "' /Users/danielpett/Documents/research/osData/Data/ParishRegion /Users/danielpett/Documents/research/osData/england/ parish_region -nln ", id, sep=""
)
system(strOGR)
}
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