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mergesp1: Merge a Spatial* object with a data.frame

Description

Merge a Spatial* object with a data.frame (i.e. merging of non-spatial attributes).

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Spatial,data.frame':
merge(x, y, by=intersect(names(x), names(y)), by.x=by, by.y=by, all.x=TRUE, suffixes = c(".x",".y"), incomparables=NULL, ...)

Arguments

x
Spatial* object
y
data.frame
by, by.x, by.y
specifications of the common columns. See 'Details' in (base) merge
all.x
logical; if TRUE, then the returned object will have all rows of x, even those that has no matching row in y. These rows will have NAs in those columns that are usually filled with values from y
suffixes
character(2) specifying the suffixes to be used for making non-by names() unique.
incomparables
values which cannot be matched. See match.
...
arguments to be passed to or from methods.

Value

  • Spatial*

See Also

The merge,SpatialPolygons,SpatialPolygons-method for appending and perhaps spatially intersecting polygons The merge,Raster,Raster-method for merging Raster objects