[R-sig-Geo] How to order statistical data (spatial panel)

[Kent Johnson]

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> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:45:59 -0500
> From: Rolando Valdez <rvaldezr at gmail.com>
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> Hello all,
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> I will to perform a spatial panel data, I have statistical data of 2000+
> territories in 5 years ordered as typical simple panel data (Each
> territoriy has a unique geocode).
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> In the other hand I have a shapefile with those 2000+ territories, but,
> when I've opened the dbf file, the order of units seems to have not order
> criteria. These ones have geocode too (same than statistical).
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> The question is, how should I order my data to garantee a right matching
> between statistical and geographical data?
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I would think you would do a merge or join of the spatial data with your
statistical data using geocode as the key, rather than a cbind or similar
operation that depends on order. See ?sp::merge or ?sf::merge.sf.

Kent

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