gTouches {rgeos}R Documentation

Geometry Relationships - Touches

Description

Functions for testing if the geometries have at least one boundary point in common, but no interior points

Usage

	gTouches(spgeom1, spgeom2 = NULL, byid = FALSE)

Arguments

spgeom1, spgeom2

sp objects as defined in package sp. If spgeom2 is NULL then spgeom1 is compared to itself.

byid

Logical vector determining if the function should be applied across ids (TRUE) or the entire object (FALSE) for spgeom1 and spgeom2

Value

Returns TRUE if the intersection of the boundaries of the two geometries is not empty.

Author(s)

Roger Bivand & Colin Rundel

See Also

gContains gContainsProperly gCovers gCoveredBy gCrosses gDisjoint gEquals gEqualsExact gIntersects gOverlaps gRelate gWithin

Examples


	p1 = readWKT("POLYGON((0 0,1 0,1 1,0 1,0 0))")
	p2 = readWKT("POLYGON((0 1,0.5 2,1 1,0 1))")
	p3 = readWKT("POLYGON((0.5 1,0 2,1 2,0.5 1))")
	p4 = readWKT("POLYGON((0.5 0.5,0 1.5,1 1.5,0.5 0.5))")
	
	l0 = readWKT("LINESTRING(0 1,0.5 2,1 1)")
	
	l1 = readWKT("LINESTRING(0 0,2 2)")
	l2 = readWKT("LINESTRING(1 1,2 0)")
	l3 = readWKT("LINESTRING(0 2,2 0)")
	
	
	par(mfrow=c(2,3))
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(p2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,p2)))
	
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(p3,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,p3)))
	
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(p4,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,p4)))
	
	plot(p1,col='blue',border='blue',ylim=c(0,2.5));plot(l0,lwd=2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(p1,l0)))
	
	plot(l1,lwd=2,col='blue');plot(l2,lwd=2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(l1,l2)))
	
	plot(l1,lwd=2,col='blue');plot(l3,lwd=2,col='black',add=TRUE,pch=16)
	title(paste("Touches:",gTouches(l1,l3)))
	

[Package rgeos version 0.2-2 Index]