Hi Zia,

Can I suggest that you have a good read of
?list.files
and in particular the section on pattern=...

and possibly also
?glob2rx

so you might be modifying Matt's script by changing to
list.files(glob2rx('poly_shape.*.shp'))
or similar

cheers,
Sean


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Zia Ahmed <z...@cornell.edu> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Your  code  work perfectly. As a test run, I am able to merge lower 48
> states and create a polygon of Con. USA when  all files are in one  folder.
>  But  SSURGO data  organized like  following way (not exactly)
> state_name (wd)/
>    state_001 (subfolder)/spatial/several shape files (a_shape001.shp,
> *poly_shape001.shp,* l_shape001.shp)
>    state_003 (subfolder)/spatial/several shape files (a_shape003.shp,
> *poly_shape003.shp*,  l_shape003.shp)
>    state_005 (subfolder)/spatial/several shape files (a_shape005.shp,
> *poly_shape005.shp*,  l_shape005.shp)
> ---------
>    state_065 (subfolder)/spatial/several shape files (a_shape065.shp,
> *poly_shape065.shp*,  l_shape065.shp)
>
> like this.
>
> I like to select one shape file (suppose *poly_shape-----.shp*)   from each
>  of sub folder of  my working directory and merge them together. Is there
> any way to do this in a loop?
> Thanks again
> Zia
>
> Matt Beard wrote:
>>
>> Zia,
>>
>> The error you received was 'invalid class "SpatialPolygons" object:
>> non-unique Polygons ID slot values'.
>> Renaming the Polygons IDs so that they are unique should fix your problem.
>>
>> The following code along with some test shapefiles I used are attached.
>>
>> library(rgdal)
>> setwd("C:/test")
>>
>> # obtain shapefiles in current directory
>> files <- list.files(pattern = "shp")
>>
>> # get polygons from first file
>> data.first <- readOGR(files[1], gsub(".shp","",files[1]))
>> polygons <- slot(data.first, "polygons")
>>
>> # add polygons from remaining files
>> for (i in 2:length(files)) {
>>   data.temp <- readOGR(files[i], gsub(".shp","",files[i]))
>>   polygons <- c(slot(data.temp, "polygons"),polygons)
>> }
>>
>> # rename IDs of Polygons
>> for (i in 1:length(polygons)) {
>>   slot(polygons[[i]], "ID") <- paste(i)
>> }
>>
>> # ain't that spatial
>> spatialPolygons <- SpatialPolygons(polygons)
>> spdf <- SpatialPolygonsDataFrame(spatialPolygons,
>> data.frame(fakeData=1:length(polygons)))
>>
>> # output combined results
>> plot(spatialPolygons)
>> writeOGR(spdf, dsn="C:/test/combined.shp", layer="combined", driver="ESRI
>> Shapefile")
>>
>> # end of code
>>
>> My test shapefiles had very different attribute tables, so I didn't bother
>> combining the data tables.
>> However, the code above should at least show you that your method can
>> work.
>>
>> I found it interesting that when I combined the polygons in the opposite
>> order:
>> polygons <- c(polygons,slot(data.temp, "polygons"))
>>
>> the SoutheasternStates polygons completely covered up the Florida polygons
>> in QGis, but
>> the Florida polygons showed up when plotting in R:
>> plot(spatialPolygons)
>>
>> Does the R 'plot' function order the polygons before displaying them? Is
>> it possible to view the code
>> for a function like plot(SpatialPolygons)?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Zia Ahmed <z...@cornell.edu
>> <mailto:z...@cornell.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>    Thanks! I am trying to write a function to merge or combine
>>    several shape files.
>>
>>    First I try to use following function when all shape files in one
>>    folder. It showed error.
>>
>>    setwd("E:/Zia/SURRGO_Data/SSURGO_RAW_DATA/Test1")
>>    library(rgdal)
>>    ## obtain shapefile names in current directory
>>    fs <- list.files(pattern = "shp")
>>     ## read the first one
>>     d <- readOGR(fs[1], gsub(".shp", "", fs[1]))
>>     for (i in 2:length(fs)) {
>>     d.tmp <- readOGR(fs[i], gsub(".shp", "", fs[i]))
>>     }
>>     d <- rbind(d, d.tmp)
>>    >  d <- rbind(d, d.tmp)
>>    Error in validObject(.Object) :
>>    invalid class "SpatialPolygons" object: non-unique Polygons ID
>>    slot values
>>
>>
>>    Then I am trying to use following code, but it did  not work. it
>>  _created a empty layer. _I think I did something wrong.  Any idea,
>>
>>    # Code for similar file name (shape.shp)
>>    setwd("E:/Zia/SURRGO_Data/SSURGO_RAW_DATA/Testf")
>>    library(rgdal)
>>
>>    files <- list.files(pattern = "shp")  # get all the names in the
>>    directory
>>    files <- files[file.info <http://file.info>(files)$isdir]  # only
>>    keep the directories
>>
>>    layer<- file('layer.shp')  # output file
>>    for (Dir in files){
>>        input <- readOGR(file.path(Dir, "shape.shp"))        rbind(input,
>> layer)      }
>>    close(layer)
>>
>>    I have a situations  like   all shape files are different names
>>    (like...001.shp, ...003.shp, ....005.shp  so on ) and were saved
>>    in different folders (like fn001, fn003, fn005....... If someone
>>    helps me to write correct code  for solving this it will be great.
>>
>>    Zia
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