Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-05-05 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Alina Sheyman wrote: and for some reason I am still getting the error that I have non-unique id's eventhough i had deduped both of my files. Any idea why this would be happening? Please refer to comments below: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Alina Sheyman wrote: I'

Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-05-05 Thread Alina Sheyman
and for some reason I am still getting the error that I have non-unique id's eventhough i had deduped both of my files. Any idea why this would be happening? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Alina Sheyman wrote: > > I'm still working on trying to combine two spatial files. > So far I've done the

Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-05-05 Thread Alina Sheyman
I'm still working on trying to combine two spatial files. So far I've done the following zipmaps1a<- unionSpatialPolygons(zipmaps1,IDs=paste(zipmaps1$ZCTA)) zipmaps1_df<- as(zipmaps1, "data.frame") [!duplicated(zipmaps1$ZCTA), -(1:4)] row.names(zipmaps1_df)<- paste(zipmaps1_df$ZCTA) zipmaps1b <- S

Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-04-29 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Alina Sheyman wrote: Using examples in Chapter 5, I am trying to get rid of non-unique polygons. Actually, maybe my advice wasn't well-judged, unless you are happy to interpret code in a fairly naked setting, you may actually need the book text to see what is going on. T

Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-04-29 Thread Alina Sheyman
Aslo, this function seems to wipe out my file zipmaps1a <- unionSpatialPolygons(zipmaps1, IDs=paste(zipmaps1$ZCTA, zipmaps1$NAME, sep = " ")) when I run names(zipmaps1a), after I run the above command I get NULL On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Alina Sheyman wrote: > Using examples in Chapter

Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-04-29 Thread Alina Sheyman
Using examples in Chapter 5, I am trying to get rid of non-unique polygons. I'm working with a Massachusetts shapefile by zips. The file consists the following fields ZCTA NAME LSAD LSAD_TRANS I've done the following to get rid of duplicate records > zipmaps1_df <- as(zipmaps1, "data.frame")

Re: [R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-04-28 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Alina Sheyman wrote: I'm trying to combine two shapefiles using zipmaps5 <- spRbind(zipmaps1,zipmaps2) and getting the following error message Error in spRbind(as(obj, "SpatialPolygons"), as(x, "SpatialPolygons")) : non-unique polygon IDs Does anyone know how I can get ri

[R-sig-Geo] unique spatial polygons

2009-04-28 Thread Alina Sheyman
I'm trying to combine two shapefiles using zipmaps5 <- spRbind(zipmaps1,zipmaps2) and getting the following error message Error in spRbind(as(obj, "SpatialPolygons"), as(x, "SpatialPolygons")) : non-unique polygon IDs Does anyone know how I can get rid of duplicate polygons in a shapefile? th