[R-sig-Geo] Creating neighbors base on the distance between different regions' nearest edge

[Ariel Ortiz-Bobea]

I don't think there's a built-in function that allows you to do that. What I
would do is to:

1- convert each polygon into a set of points

2- loop over pair of polygons (set of points): A- compute all the distances
between points across the 2 sets using a distance function like spDistsN1,
B- get the minimum .

This might take a long time to compute with a very large number of points
because you need to compute all distance pairs… I don't see how you can
avoid that.



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Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
Assistant Profesor in Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University
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