Examples for 'sp::geometry'

Methods for retrieving the geometry from a composite (geometry + attributes) object

Aliases: geometry geometry-methods geometry,Spatial-method geometry,SpatialPointsDataFrame-method geometry,SpatialMultiPointsDataFrame-method geometry,SpatialGridDataFrame-method geometry,SpatialPixelsDataFrame-method geometry,SpatialLinesDataFrame-method geometry,SpatialPolygonsDataFrame-method geometry<- geometry<-,data.frame,Spatial-method

Keywords: methods

### ** Examples

data(meuse)
m = meuse
coordinates(m) = meuse[, c("x", "y")]
pts = geometry(m)
class(pts)

[1] "SpatialPoints"
attr(,"package")
[1] "sp"

geometry(meuse) = pts
class(meuse)

[1] "SpatialPointsDataFrame"
attr(,"package")
[1] "sp"

identical(m, meuse) # TRUE

[1] TRUE

[Package sp version 1.5-0 Index]