Questions tagged [rgeo-shapefile]
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Dissolving polygons by distance - R
I'm quite new to geospatial analysis in R and need help with dissolving polygons based on their location.
I have a shapefile with about 1500 polygons. Each polygon has a property code. There are a total of 4 properties in the shape attribute table.…

Lari Delazari
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r buffering line feature causes crash
I am try to select points in an area around the former Iron Curtain.
So I got the shapefiles and intersected former Eastern and Western Europe to get a line feature
library(raster)
library(sp)
library(rgeos)
### set project…

Gmichael
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Can no longer install rgeos and rgdal in R
I cannot install rgeos or rgdal packages in R version 4.1.3. These packages worked fine a month ago before I reformatted my computer and reinstalled R.
This is what I have tried:
install.packages('rgeos', type="source")
install.packages('rgdal',…

BHope
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extend (buffer) boundary of shape file in R
I need to extend the boundary of a field (only boundary) by x meters. I tried using gBuffer from rgeos R package - output of the transformation gives me only boundary of the field and rest polygons inside the field are lost with data.
How I can use…

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shapefiles: convert Point (MultiPoint) to Point (PointZ) geometry in R
I have a shapefile (mult_point_example.shp) in a multipoint geometry:
# Packages
require(sf)
# get AOI
download.file(
"https://github.com/Leprechault/trash/raw/main/mult_point_example.zip",
zip_path <- tempfile(fileext =…

Leprechault
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Spatial inverse subset using square brackets in R
I have a spatial point data frame -> spatial_points
and a polygon -> spatial_poly
I can subset all points within the polygon using
subset_within <- spatial_points[spatial_poly,] which is nice and intuitive.
But if I want to subset all points…

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Unable to install any packages on R
I am trying to install packages for a spatial data course however each package I try install to R I get this same error message
Warning in install.packages :
'lib = "C:/Users/chris/OneDrive/Documents/R/win-library/3.4"' is not writable
I have…

chris1
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Using gContains and checking if the points is inside the polygon/country. R
The following code checks if a coordinate pair belongs to a specific polygon or not. I need to check more coordinate data using loop or something.
Now when it calls the code, it checks every value, but if there is only one coordinate outside the…

Coya
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raster::erase function - Error in RGEOSBinTopoFunc : TopologyException
I am using raster package erase function as per my previous post solution for clipping and dissolving overlapping polygons - Dissolve Overlapping Polygons using difference and union in R
For some of the polygons I am getting below error with erase…

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Shapefiles do not overlay raster layer in R
I have hundreds of shapefiles without a coordinate reference system. My goal is the overlay the spatial polygons over the WorldClim raster layer. I used this approach before without any problems. However, this time the coordinates from my shapefiles…

Ricardo Adelino
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Receiving Error Message when using command over()
I have two shape files, shp1 and shp2. After calculating the centroid of the former, I'd like to see where the centroid lies in the latter.
My setup does:
shp1@data$centroid <- gCentroid(shp1, byid = TRUE)
foo <- over(shp1$centroid, shp2)
Upon…

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How to use function crop(x, y, ...) from raster package so that the output is information about y (raster) contained in x (shapefile, extent object)
I am kind of new to R and especially to working with GIS in R, so I hope I explain this right.
I want to get the function crop (x,y...) from package raster to merge/overlay (not sure what's the correct expression to use) a raster file with a…

Nina
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How to union 2 intersecting polygons receiving 2 single polygons
How to union intersecting polygons (perfect circles) like in the following picture:
So far, I used rgeos and sf, but couldn´t identiy a simple way yet.
library(rgeos)
library(sp)
pts <- SpatialPoints(cbind(c(2,3), c(1,1)))
plot(pts)
pol <-…

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R - Best Way to Perform Geospatial Calculations
I am working on a project where I pull crime data from an API, and essentially calculate the density of crime per predefined grid unit. I do this now by putting lat and lon into a data.frame and then calculating the count of points within a radius…

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R and GIS: having trouble with a loop to save files
The relevant NCDF file is here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/19419
I have a NCDF file, and am using the following loop to first save each file as a CSV file, and then as a shapefile:
for (m in 1:500){
#First I want to save my CSV…

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