How to count unique TRUE's

I can't quite make sense of what your objects look like, but I suspect you
need to change byid to a vector, so you are byid for the points but not the
polygons byid=c(FALSE,TRUE) or vice versa.


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Walter Anderson <wandrson01 at gmail.com>
wrote:

I have a buffered project SpatialPolygonDataFrame and a
SpatialPointDataFrame that I want to intersect (one project at a time)
and count the number of points within each polygon's footprint.

I am using the following code:

for (i in 1:numprjs)
{
        curprj <- as.character(output at PROJECT[i])
        tmp <- subset(buf2640, buf2640$PROJECT == curprj)
        tmp2 <- as.vector(gIntersects(tmp, ac, byid=TRUE))
        output$AC[i] <- length(tmp[tmp2 == TRUE])
}

The problem is that when the project's polygons cover more than one
overlapping shapes (derived from multiple sub-projects that are given
the same project id), the above code can multiple count a single ac
point if it falls within the boundaries of two or more of a single
projects polygons.

As an example project 'B1103' has two points within its two polygons;
however, the above code reports three.  I believe the following extract
of the core gIntersects command shows why

        2     3
122 FALSE  TRUE
313  TRUE  TRUE

So clearly the problem is my use of as.vector, which is taking all of
the columns and combining them into a single vector; however, I am
unsure of the best way to count the number of true in the original data
structure created by the gIntersects command.

Walter Anderson

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