Attach values from polygons to points
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Jens Oldeland <oldeland at gmx.de> wrote:
Hi, I am working with two shapefiles in R; one is a point.shp the other is a polygon.shp. Now, I would like to intersect/join/attach all the values from the polygon to the table of the point.shp. I tried overlay() and spRbind in package sp, but nothing did what I expected them to do. Could anyone give me a hint how I can combine both shapefiles?
You could read the reply I posted on stackoverflow :) But the short answer is: overlay(pts,polys) returns the index of the row of polys that the points in pts are inside. How did this not work for you? Barry