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I would like to create a simple polygon using the sf package.

From my understanding, I have to create a two column matrix where the last row is identical to the first one to close the ring of the polygon.

p1 <- structure(c(0.424084334649542, 0.316800956453136, 0.394125036134903, 
                 0.424084334649542, 0.646053530054886, 0.608338100572382, 0.851623048730609, 
                 0.646053530054886), .Dim = c(4L, 2L))

The matrix p1 has the form that I want

          [,1]      [,2]
[1,] 0.4240843 0.6460535
[2,] 0.3168010 0.6083381
[3,] 0.3941250 0.8516230
[4,] 0.4240843 0.6460535

If I try to create a polygon with this data I got this error

st_polygon(p1)

Error in MtrxSet(x, dim, type = "POLYGON", needClosed = TRUE) :
is.list(x) is not TRUE

However for linestrings it works

st_linestring(p1)

LINESTRING (0.4240843 0.6460535, 0.316801 0.6083381, 0.394125 0.851623, 0.4240843 0.6460535)

Anyone knows why?

Thanks for the help.

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My mistake!

I forgot to include p1 into a list.

This code works

st_polygon(list(p1))

POLYGON ((0.4240843 0.6460535, 0.316801 0.6083381, 0.394125 0.851623, 0.4240843 0.6460535))

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