select polygons in polygons

Thanks Edzer - I looked into it but I need to coerce the SPDF objects 
to gpc.poly objects and then I will lose all the attribute data I think.
I may just have to use RODBC with postGIS to speed up the selection 
process, which has worked well for me in other situations, but makes 
the scripts that much more cumbersome.

cheers

Murray

Edzer Pebesma wrote:

That's right, it is not there; I thought this morning about a way to 
look whether all the points of one polygon fall in another, which 
sp's overlay could do, but that's not a sufficient condition.

Perhaps functions in package gpclib can do this?
-- 
Edzer

Murray Richardson wrote:

Thanks Friderike.  I assumed this was the answer, but it doesn't 
appear to work with two SPDF objects.  i.e.:

overlay(polysA,polysB)

Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  :
 unable to find an inherited method for function "overlay", for 
signature "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame", "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"


Murray


Oehler, Friderike (AGPP) wrote:

Try ?overlay

Regards,
Friderike


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Subject: [R-sig-Geo] select polygons in polygons


Hello users,

There is probably a very simple solution to this that I am missing: 
is there a way to select polygons in one SPDF that fall within the 
polygons of another SPDF? This would save me a lot of processing 
time as I am having to take a very circuitous route to achieve the 
same outcome.

Thanks!

Murray