raster (version 3.0-2)

bind: Bind Spatial* objects

Description

Bind (append) Spatial* objects into a single object. All objects must be of the same vector type base class (SpatialPoints, SpatialLines, or SpatialPolygons)

Usage

# S4 method for SpatialPolygons,SpatialPolygons
bind(x, y, ..., keepnames=FALSE)
# S4 method for SpatialLines,SpatialLines
bind(x, y, ..., keepnames=FALSE)
# S4 method for SpatialPoints,SpatialPoints
bind(x, y, ..., keepnames=FALSE)
# S4 method for data.frame,data.frame
bind(x, y, ..., variables=NULL)
# S4 method for list,missing
bind(x, y, ..., keepnames=FALSE)

Arguments

x

Spatial* object or data.frame, or a list of Spatial* objects

y

Spatial* object or data.frame, or missing

...

Additional Spatial* objects

keepnames

Logical. If TRUE the row.names are kept (if unique)

variables

character. Variable (column) names to keep, If NULL, all variables are kept

Value

Spatial* object

See Also

merge

Examples

# NOT RUN {
p <- readRDS(system.file("external/lux.rds", package="raster"))
mersch <- p[p$NAME_2=='Mersch', ]
diekirch <- p[p$NAME_2=='Diekirch', ]
remich <- p[p$NAME_2=='Remich', ]
remich$NAME_1 <- NULL
x <- bind(mersch, diekirch, remich)
plot(x)
data.frame(x)
# }