| gDifference {rgeos} | R Documentation |
Function for determining the difference between the two given geometries.
gDifference(spgeom1, spgeom2, byid=FALSE, id=NULL, drop_not_poly=FALSE)
spgeom1, spgeom2 |
sp objects as defined in package sp |
byid |
Logical vector determining if the function should be applied across ids (TRUE) or the entire object (FALSE) for spgeom1 and spgeom2 |
id |
Character vector defining id labels for the resulting geometries, if unspecified returned geometries will be labeled based on their parent geometries' labels. |
drop_not_poly |
default FALSE, if TRUE and spgeom1, spgeom2 both inherit from SpatialPolygons, POINT and LINESTRING objects will be dropped from output GEOMETRYCOLLECTION objects to simplify output. |
Returns the regions of spgeom1 that are not within spgeom2. If the geometries do not intersect then the result is just spgeom1. Note that the function is not symmetric for spgeom1 and spgeom2.
Roger Bivand & Colin Rundel
gIntersection
gSymdifference
gUnion
x = readWKT("POLYGON ((0 0, 0 10, 10 10, 10 0, 0 0))")
y = readWKT("POLYGON ((3 3, 7 3, 7 7, 3 7, 3 3))")
d = gDifference(x,y)
plot(d,col='red',pbg='white')
# Empty geometry since y is completely contained with x
d2 = gDifference(y,x)