This function is to check the connectivity of a given network. Its principle is to traverse all the nodes and do the classifation: for any two different node they fall into a same category if one can be visited from the other one, i.e. there is a path between them. Different categories (connected parts) are represented in different colors in the output plot and the majority connected part is returned as a “SpatialLinesDataFrame” object.
nt.connect(nt)A “SpatialLines” or “SpatialLinesDataFrame” object.