maptools (version 0.6-5)

spCbind-methods: cbind for spatial objects

Description

spCbind provides cbind-like methods for Spatial*DataFrame objects in addition to the $, [<- and [[<- methods already available.

Arguments

See Also

spChFIDs-methods, spRbind-methods

Examples

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xx <- readShapePoly(system.file("shapes/sids.shp", package="maptools")[1], 
  IDvar="FIPSNO", proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=clrk66"))
xtra <- read.dbf(system.file("share/nc_xtra.dbf", package="maptools")[1])
o <- match(xx$CNTY_ID, xtra$CNTY_ID)
xtra1 <- xtra[o,]
row.names(xtra1) <- xx$FIPSNO
xx1 <- spCbind(xx, xtra1)
names(xx1)
identical(xx1$CNTY_ID, xx1$CNTY_ID.1)

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