merge Shape file
In that case I would use "combine".
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Joseph Bechara <jbechara at lri-lb.org> wrote:
Hi Robert, **** ** ** I wanted to use the union but my shapefiles are not intersecting.**** I want to combine 10 adjacent shapefiles.**** Will "union" work in this case?**** ** ** ** ** *JOSEPH BECHARA* *Wildfire Management Program Coordinator* Ashrafieh 1020 Building, 8th floor, Mathaf, Beirut, Lebanon** Tel.: +961 (1) 426630-1-2**** Fax: +961 (1) 426631**** Mail: jbechara at lri-lb.org <jbejjani at lri-lb.org>**** www.lri-lb.org**** [image: Description: Description: LRI-logo-Email]**** ** ** ** ** *From:* Robert J. Hijmans [mailto:r.hijmans at gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, October 02, 2013 12:26 AM *To:* Joseph Bechara *Cc:* Roman Lu?trik; R-sig-geo mailing list *Subject:* Re: [R-sig-Geo] merge Shape file**** ** ** Joseph, **** The merge in ArcGIS is actually the similar to sp::rbind as Barry pointed out. You probably want 'union'. rgeos has gUnion, and sptools (on R-Forge) has 'union' and other functions that extend rgeos by adding attribute table handling.**** Robert**** ** ** On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Joseph Bechara <jbechara at lri-lb.org> wrote:**** Thanks Roman, **** **** I know the rgeos package but I'm not able to identify which tools can replace the merge of ArcGIS.**** **** **** *JOSEPH BECHARA***** *Wildfire Management Program Coordinator***** Ashrafieh 1020 Building, 8th floor, Mathaf, Beirut, Lebanon**** Tel.: +961 (1) 426630-1-2**** Fax: +961 (1) 426631**** Mail: jbechara at lri-lb.org <jbejjani at lri-lb.org>**** www.lri-lb.org**** [image: Description: Description: LRI-logo-Email]**** **** **** *From:* romunov at gmail.com [mailto:romunov at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Roman Lu?trik *Sent:* Tuesday, October 01, 2013 4:32 PM *To:* Joseph Bechara *Cc:* R-sig-geo mailing list**** *Subject:* Re: [R-sig-Geo] merge Shape file**** **** I think you want the `rgeos` package that offers a plethora of functions to work with "features".**** **** Cheers,**** Roman**** **** **** On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Joseph Bechara <jbechara at lri-lb.org> wrote:**** Dear Bary, **** **** Actually I have to do a geometrical merge operation.**** I'm looking for the equivalent of "merge" in ArcGIS.**** **** *JOSEPH BECHARA***** *Wildfire Management Program Coordinator***** Ashrafieh 1020 Building, 8th floor, Mathaf, Beirut, Lebanon**** Tel.: +961 (1) 426630-1-2**** Fax: +961 (1) 426631**** Mail: jbechara at lri-lb.org <jbejjani at lri-lb.org>**** www.lri-lb.org**** **** **** *From:* b.rowlingson at gmail.com [mailto:b.rowlingson at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Barry Rowlingson**** *Sent:* Tuesday, October 01, 2013 4:04 PM *To:* Joseph Bechara *Cc:* R-sig-Geo at r-project.org *Subject:* Re: [R-sig-Geo] merge Shape file**** **** **** **** On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joseph Bechara <jbechara at lri-lb.org> wrote:**** I'm looking for a function to merge 2 shapefiles keeping them as "spatialPolygonsDataframe" class.**** Any clue?**** **** **** **** What do you mean by merge? If the two shapefiles have the same set of attributes then just read them into SpatialPolygonsDataFrames and do s12 = rbind(s1,s2), and you end up with a SPDF which has all the features from s1 and s2.**** Or do you want to do some geometrical merge operation?**** Barry**** ****
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