spatialEco (version 0.1-7)

point.in.poly: Point and Polygon Intersect

Description

Intersects point and polygon feature classes and adds polygon attributes to points

Usage

point.in.poly(pts, polys)

Arguments

pts

sp SpatialPointsDataFrame or SpatialPoints object

polys

sp SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object

Value

A SpatialPointsDataFrame with intersected polygon attributes

Examples

require(sp)
data(meuse)
coordinates(meuse) = ~x+y
sr1=Polygons(list(Polygon(cbind(c(180114, 180553, 181127, 181477, 181294, 181007, 180409, 
  180162, 180114), c(332349, 332057, 332342, 333250, 333558, 333676, 
  332618, 332413, 332349)))),'1')
sr2=Polygons(list(Polygon(cbind(c(180042, 180545, 180553, 180314, 179955, 179142, 179437, 
  179524, 179979, 180042), c(332373, 332026, 331426, 330889, 330683, 
  331133, 331623, 332152, 332357, 332373)))),'2')
sr3=Polygons(list(Polygon(cbind(c(179110, 179907, 180433, 180712, 180752, 180329, 179875, 
  179668, 179572, 179269, 178879, 178600, 178544, 179046, 179110),
  c(331086, 330620, 330494, 330265, 330075, 330233, 330336, 330004, 
  329783, 329665, 329720, 329933, 330478, 331062, 331086)))),'3')
sr4=Polygons(list(Polygon(cbind(c(180304, 180403,179632,179420,180304),
  c(332791, 333204, 333635, 333058, 332791)))),'4')
sr=SpatialPolygons(list(sr1,sr2,sr3,sr4))
srdf=SpatialPolygonsDataFrame(sr, data.frame(row.names=c('1','2','3','4'), PIDS=1:4))

# Intersect points with polygons and add polygon IDS to pts@data. 
  pts.poly <- point.in.poly(meuse, srdf) 
    head(pts.poly@data)

# Point counts for each polygon
tapply(pts.poly@data$lead, pts.poly@data$PIDS, FUN=length)