Re: [R-sig-Geo] Alternate methods: Polygon Algebra / Polygon Overlay with R Spatial objects..

2010-01-15 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, rick reeves wrote: Hello List: I have been reviewing techniques within R for performing the GIS-like operation 'polygon algebra' (computing the union and intersection of polygons within two SpatialPolygonDataFrame objects). The goal is to combine two polygon data frames,

[R-sig-Geo] Alternate methods: Polygon Algebra / Polygon Overlay with R Spatial objects..

2010-01-15 Thread rick reeves
Hello List: I have been reviewing techniques within R for performing the GIS-like operation 'polygon algebra' (computing the union and intersection of polygons within two SpatialPolygonDataFrame objects). The goal is to combine two polygon data frames, to produce a new polygon data frames that