[R-sig-Geo] merge Shape file

[Edzer Pebesma]

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On 10/01/2013 03:35 PM, Joseph Bechara wrote:
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> I know the rgeos package but I?m not able to identify which tools
> can replace the merge of ArcGIS.

What does "merge" in ArcGIS do?

Note that package sp has a merge method that merges a Spatial object
with a data.frame, based on the attribute table, similar to base::merge.

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> From: romunov at gmail.com [mailto:romunov at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Roman Lu?trik Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 4:32 PM To: Joseph
> Bechara Cc: R-sig-geo mailing list Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] merge
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> I think you want the `rgeos` package that offers a plethora of
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> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Joseph Bechara
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> Actually I have to do a geometrical merge operation.
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> I?m looking for the equivalent of ?merge? in ArcGIS.
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> JOSEPH BECHARA
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> From: b.rowlingson at gmail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson at gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 4:04 PM 
> To: Joseph Bechara Cc: R-sig-Geo at r-project.org Subject: Re:
> [R-sig-Geo] merge Shape file
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> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joseph Bechara
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> I?m looking for a function to merge 2 shapefiles keeping them as
> ?spatialPolygonsDataframe? class.
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> Any clue?
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> What do you mean by merge? If the two shapefiles have the same set
> of attributes then just read them into SpatialPolygonsDataFrames
> and do s12 = rbind(s1,s2), and you end up with a SPDF which has all
> the features from s1 and s2.
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> Or do you want to do some geometrical merge operation?
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