sf (version 1.0-7)

geos_binary_pred: Geometric binary predicates on pairs of simple feature geometry sets

Description

Geometric binary predicates on pairs of simple feature geometry sets

Usage

st_intersects(x, y, sparse = TRUE, ...)
st_disjoint(x, y = x, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE)
st_touches(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ...)
st_crosses(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ...)
st_within(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ...)
st_contains(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ..., model = "open")
st_contains_properly(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ...)
st_overlaps(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ...)
st_equals(
  x,
  y,
  sparse = TRUE,
  prepared = FALSE,
  ...,
  retain_unique = FALSE,
  remove_self = FALSE
)
st_covers(x, y, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ..., model = "closed")
st_covered_by(x, y = x, sparse = TRUE, prepared = TRUE, ..., model = "closed")
st_equals_exact(x, y, par, sparse = TRUE, prepared = FALSE, ...)
st_is_within_distance(x, y = x, dist, sparse = TRUE, ...)

Value

If sparse=FALSE, st_predicate (with predicate e.g. "intersects") returns a dense logical matrix with element i,j

TRUE when predicate(x[i], y[j]) (e.g., when geometry of feature i and j intersect); if sparse=TRUE, an object of class sgbp with a sparse list representation of the same matrix, with list element i an integer vector with all indices j for which predicate(x[i],y[j]) is TRUE (and hence a zero-length integer vector if none of them is TRUE). From the dense matrix, one can find out if one or more elements intersect by apply(mat, 1, any), and from the sparse list by lengths(lst) > 0, see examples below.

Arguments

x

object of class sf, sfc or sfg

y

object of class sf, sfc or sfg; if missing, x is used

sparse

logical; should a sparse index list be returned (TRUE) or a dense logical matrix? See below.

...

passed on to s2_options

prepared

logical; prepare geometry for x, before looping over y? See Details.

model

character; polygon/polyline model; one of "open", "semi-open" or "closed"; see Details.

retain_unique

logical; if TRUE (and y is missing) return only indexes of points larger than the current index; this can be used to select unique geometries, see examples. This argument can be used for all geometry predictates; see als distinct.sf to find records where geometries AND attributes are distinct.

remove_self

logical; if TRUE (and y is missing) return only indexes of geometries different from the current index; this can be used to omit self-intersections; see examples. This argument can be used for all geometry predictates

par

numeric; parameter used for "equals_exact" (margin);

dist

distance threshold; geometry indexes with distances smaller or equal to this value are returned; numeric value or units value having distance units.

Details

If prepared is TRUE, and x contains POINT geometries and y contains polygons, then the polygon geometries are prepared, rather than the points.

For most predicates, a spatial index is built on argument x; see https://r-spatial.org/r/2017/06/22/spatial-index.html. Specifically, st_intersects, st_disjoint, st_touches st_crosses, st_within, st_contains, st_contains_properly, st_overlaps, st_equals, st_covers and st_covered_by all build spatial indexes for more efficient geometry calculations. st_relate, st_equals_exact, and do not; st_is_within_distance uses a spatial index for geographic coordinates when sf_use_s2() is true.

If y is missing, `st_predicate(x, x)` is effectively called, and a square matrix is returned with diagonal elements `st_predicate(x[i], x[i])`.

Sparse geometry binary predicate (sgbp) lists have the following attributes: region.id with the row.names of x (if any, else 1:n), ncol with the number of features in y, and predicate with the name of the predicate used.

for model, see https://github.com/r-spatial/s2/issues/32

`st_contains_properly(A,B)` is true if A intersects B's interior, but not its edges or exterior; A contains A, but A does not properly contain A.

See also st_relate and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DE-9IM for a more detailed description of the underlying algorithms.

st_equals_exact returns true for two geometries of the same type and their vertices corresponding by index are equal up to a specified tolerance.

Examples

pts = st_sfc(st_point(c(.5,.5)), st_point(c(1.5, 1.5)), st_point(c(2.5, 2.5)))
pol = st_polygon(list(rbind(c(0,0), c(2,0), c(2,2), c(0,2), c(0,0))))
(lst = st_intersects(pts, pol))
(mat = st_intersects(pts, pol, sparse = FALSE))
# which points fall inside a polygon?
apply(mat, 1, any)
lengths(lst) > 0
# which points fall inside the first polygon?
st_intersects(pol, pts)[[1]]
# remove duplicate geometries:
p1 = st_point(0:1)
p2 = st_point(2:1)
p = st_sf(a = letters[1:8], geom = st_sfc(p1, p1, p2, p1, p1, p2, p2, p1))
st_equals(p)
st_equals(p, remove_self = TRUE)
(u = st_equals(p, retain_unique = TRUE))
# retain the records with unique geometries:
p[-unlist(u),]