sp (version 0.9-78)

zerodist: find point pairs with equal spatial coordinates

Description

find point pairs with equal spatial coordinates

Usage

zerodist(obj, zero = 0.0, unique.ID = FALSE) 
zerodist2(obj1, obj2, zero = 0.0) 
remove.duplicates(obj, zero = 0.0, remove.second = TRUE)

Arguments

obj

object of, or extending, class SpatialPoints

obj1

object of, or extending, class SpatialPoints

obj2

object of, or extending, class SpatialPoints

zero

distance values less than or equal to this threshold value are considered to have zero distance (default 0.0)

unique.ID

logical; if TRUE, return an ID (integer) for each point that is different only when two points do not share the same location

remove.second

logical; if TRUE, the second of each pair of duplicate points is removed, if FALSE remove the first

Value

• zerodist and zerodist2 return a two-column matrix with in each row pairs of row numbers with identical coordinates; a matrix with zero rows is returned if no such pairs are found. For zerodist, row number pairs refer to row pairs in obj. For zerodist2, row number pairs refer to rows in obj and obj2, respectively. remove.duplicates removes duplicate observations if present, and else returns obj.

Examples

data(meuse)
summary(meuse)
# pick 10 rows
n <- 10
ran10 <- sample(nrow(meuse), size = n, replace = TRUE)
meusedup <- rbind(meuse, meuse[ran10, ])
coordinates(meusedup) <- c("x", "y")
zd <- zerodist(meusedup)
sum(abs(zd[1:n,1] - sort(ran10))) # 0!
# remove the duplicate rows:
meusedup2 <- meusedup[-zd[,2], ]
summary(meusedup2)
meusedup3 <- subset(meusedup, !(1:nrow(meusedup) %in% zd[,2]))
summary(meusedup3)
coordinates(meuse) <- c("x", "y")
zerodist2(meuse, meuse[c(10:33,1,10),])