rgeos (version 0.3-5)

gTouches: Geometry Relationships - Touches

Description

Functions for testing if the geometries have at least one boundary point in common, but no interior points

Usage

gTouches(spgeom1, spgeom2 = NULL, byid = FALSE, returnDense=TRUE)

Arguments

spgeom1, spgeom2
sp objects as defined in package sp. If spgeom2 is NULL then spgeom1 is compared to itself.
byid
Logical vector determining if the function should be applied across ids (TRUE) or the entire object (FALSE) for spgeom1 and spgeom2
returnDense
default TRUE, if false returns a list of the length of spgeom1 of integer vectors listing the 1:length(spgeom2) indices which would be TRUE in the dense logical matrix representation; useful when the sizes of the byid=TRUE returned matrix is

Value

  • Returns TRUE if the intersection of the boundaries of the two geometries is not empty.

See Also

gContains gContainsProperly gCovers gCoveredBy gCrosses gDisjoint gEquals gEqualsExact gIntersects gOverlaps gRelate gWithin

Examples

Run this code
p1 = readWKT("POLYGON((0 0,1 0,1 1,0 1,0 0))")
	p2 = readWKT("POLYGON((0 1,0.5 2,1 1,0 1))")
	p3 = readWKT("POLYGON((0.5 1,0 2,1 2,0.5 1))")
	p4 = readWKT("POLYGON((0.5 0.5,0 1.5,1 1.5,0.5 0.5))")
	
	l0 = readWKT("LINESTRING(0 1,0.5 2,1 1)")
	
	l1 = readWKT("LINESTRING(0 0,2 2)")
	l2 = readWKT("LINESTRING(1 1,2 0)")
	l3 = readWKT("LINESTRING(0 2,2 0)")
	
	
	par(mfrow=c(2,3))
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(p2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,p2)))
	
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(p3,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,p3)))
	
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(p4,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,p4)))
	
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(l0,lwd=2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,l0)))
	
	plot(l1,lwd=2,col='blue');plot(l2,lwd=2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(l1,l2)))
	
	plot(l1,lwd=2,col='blue');plot(l3,lwd=2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(l1,l3)))

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