[R-sig-Geo] Intended usage of gIntersection ?

[Robert J. Hijmans]

The raster package has a few functions that extend rgeos by also
attempting to handle attribute data as well. In this case, see
raster::intersect
And the list of functions here:
?"raster-package"
(section XIV)

Robert

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Bernd Vogelgesang
<bernd.vogelgesang at gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to intersect two SpatialPolygonsDataFrames imported from shape
> files. (readOGR)
> The idea is to get the new polygons + the merged attributes of both layers,
> but the outcome is a SpatialPolygon class without a data slot.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour of gIntersection or is there something broken
> in my R-Installation, cause I googled now for 2 days to find a solution on
> that problem, but only found two hits on stackexchange where people had
> similar problems, and no working solution (at least for me), nor was I able
> to find any standard recipt how to join the attributes back to the new
> polygons.
>
> So obviously only rare people seem to have the need to get also the data
> from an intersection or do I miss some really basic R-capabilities not worth
> to write down in any documentation??
>
> Hope someone can shed some light
> Thanks
> Bernd
>
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