On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jens Oldeland <oldel...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with two shapefiles in R; one is a point.shp the other is a > polygon.shp. Now, I would like to intersect/join/attach all the values from > the polygon to the table of the point.shp. > > I tried overlay() and spRbind in package sp, but nothing did what I expected > them to do. > > Could anyone give me a hint how I can combine both shapefiles? >
You could read the reply I posted on stackoverflow :) But the short answer is: overlay(pts,polys) returns the index of the row of polys that the points in pts are inside. How did this not work for you? Barry _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
