SpatialPolygons {sp} | R Documentation

## create objects of class SpatialPolygons or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

### Description

create objects of class `SpatialPolygons` or `SpatialPolygonsDataFrame` from lists of `Polygons` objects and `data.frame`s

### Usage

    Polygon(coords, hole=as.logical(NA))
    Polygons(srl, ID)
    SpatialPolygons(Srl, pO, proj4string=CRS(as.character(NA)))
    SpatialPolygonsDataFrame(Sr, data, match.ID = TRUE)
    getSpatialPolygonsLabelPoints(SP)

### Arguments

`coords` | 2-column numeric matrix with coordinates; first point (row) should equal last coordinates (row); if the hole argument is not given, the status of the polygon as a hole or an island will be taken from the ring direction, with clockwise meaning island, and counter-clockwise meaning hole
`hole` | logical value for setting polygon as hole or not; if the hole argument is not given, the status of the polygon as a hole or an island will be taken from the ring direction, with clockwise meaning island, and counter-clockwise meaning hole
`proj4string` | projection string of class CRS-class
`srl` | list with Polygon-class objects
`ID` | character vector of length one with identifier
`Srl` | list with objects of class Polygons-class
`pO` | integer vector; plotting order; if missing in reverse order of Polygons area
`Sr` | object of class SpatialPolygons-class
`data` | object of class `data.frame`; the number of rows in `data` should equal the number of Polygons-class objects in `Sr`
`match.ID` | logical: (default TRUE): match SpatialPolygons member Polygons ID slot values with data frame row names, and re-order the data frame rows if necessary. If character: indicates the column in `data` with Polygons IDs to match
`SP` | object of class SpatialPolygons-class

### Details

In `Polygon`, if the hole argument is not given, the status of the polygon as a hole or an island will be taken from the ring direction, with clockwise meaning island, and counter-clockwise meaning hole. In `Polygons`, if all of the member Polygon objects are holes, the largest by area will be converted to island status. Until 2010-04-17, version 0.9-61, the area of this converted object was erroneously left at its hole value of zero. Thanks to Patrick Giraudoux for spotting the bug.

The class definitions used for polygons in sp do not accord with those of the simple features specification of the Open Geospatial Consortium. The rgeos package, an interface to Geometry Engine – Open Source (GEOS), uses this specification, in which each hole (interior ring) must be associated with its containing exterior ring. In order to avoid introducing incompatible changes into the class definition of Polygons objects, a comment has been added as a single character string to each such object. Here we can trust the data source to assign the hole status correctly, and use the simple function `createSPComment` to add such comments to each Polygons member of the polygons slot of this SpatialPolygons object. Exterior rings are coded zero, while interior rings are coded with the 1-based index of the exterior ring to which they belong. SpatialPolygons objects created by reading using `readOGR` from rgdal have the comments set on input, as OGR also uses SFS.

### Value

`Polygon` returns an object of class `Polygon`; `Polygons` returns an object of class `Polygons`; `SpatialPolygons` returns object of class `SpatialPolygons`; `SpatialPolygonsDataFrame` returns object of class `SpatialPolygonsDataFrame` `getSpatialPolygonsLabelPoints` returns an object of class `SpatialPoints` with label points.

### See Also

SpatialPolygons-class, SpatialPolygonsDataFrame-class

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