On 01/04/2021 17:01, Sean Trende wrote:
Hello,

I am using sf for the project below, but am open to non-sf solutions.

Given an sf data.frame of polygons sorted into n contiguous groups (e.g., a 
column in the df identifies each polygon as a member of group (1, . . ., n), 
where within each group all polygons are neighbors), is there a simple way to 
identify all polygons in, say, Group 5 that are neighbors to polygons in, say, 
Group 8 (assuming groups 5 and 8 are neighbors)?

E.g., if I have an sf data.frame of U.S. counties with a column that identifies 
the state in which each county is located, is there a way to identify all 
counties on the border between, say, Kansas and Nebraska?

Yes, look into using st_intersects (or st_touches) with x the counties of Kansas and y the counties of Nebraska.

What you get back is a list of length length(x), with integer vectors, the i-th vector containing the indexes of Nebraska counties touching/intersecting county i of Kansas.


Thank you so much,

Sean

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