[R-sig-Geo] intersection of two SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

[steven wilson]

Dear all;

I have been working within R for performing the GIS-like operations
with shapefiles. My goal is to overlay two spatial polygon data frames
so I can add info from one of them to the other. I've tried severals
option such as converting one of them to a spatial polygon object
(without the associated info) in order to use the 'over' function from
the maptools library. I have also tried the PBSmapping library and the
aggregate function from maptools without success so far. Is there any
way to perform this type of operation in R like in ArcGIS? I would
appreciate any hint.

Thanks in advance

SW