I think you want the `rgeos` package that offers a plethora of functions to
work with "features".

Cheers,
Roman



On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Joseph Bechara <jbechara@lri-lb.org> wrote:

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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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> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joseph Bechara <jbechara@lri-lb.org>
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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
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> Or do you want to do some geometrical merge operation?****
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