rgeos (version 0.5-1)

gNearestPoints: Closest Points of two Geometries

Description

Return closest points of two geometries.

Usage

gNearestPoints(spgeom1, spgeom2)

Arguments

spgeom1, spgeom2

sp objects as defined in package sp.

Value

The closest points of the two geometries or NULL on exception. The first point comes from spgeom1 geometry and the second point comes from spgeom2.

See Also

gDistance

Examples

# NOT RUN {
g1 <- readWKT("MULTILINESTRING((34 54, 60 34), (0 10, 50 10, 100 50))")
g2 <- readWKT("MULTIPOINT(30 0, 100 30)")
plot(g1, pch=4, axes=TRUE)
plot(g2, add=TRUE)
plot(gNearestPoints(g1, g2), add=TRUE, col="red", pch=7)
gDistance(g1, g2)
# }