[R-sig-Geo] Merging spatial polygons

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, John Tomkinson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to merge spatial polygons within a spatial polygon object. I 
> used to do this with the union spatial polygons command :
>
> neighbourhoods<-unionSpatialPolygons(city, neighbourhood$ID, 
> threshold=NULL, avoidGEOS=FALSE, avoidUnaryUnion=FALSE)
>
> But now having gpclib issues, my question is how would I do this with 
> the rgeos package? I can't seem to get the gUnion function to work.

If rgeos is available, unionSpatialPolygons() will use that rather than 
gpclib, so actually runs: gUnaryUnion(spgeom=city, 
id=as.character(neighbourhood$ID)) in your case. What does rgeosStatus() 
say with maptools loaded?

Always provide full details of error messages, best a reproducible example 
with a built-in data set, and always the output of sessionInfo().

>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John
>
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Roger

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