[R] point.in.polygon help

[Daisy Englert Duursma]

It would be useful to know what your ultimate goal is.

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:29 AM, karengrace84 <kgfisher at alumni.unc.edu> wrote:
> I am new to mapping with R, and I would like to use the point.in.polygon
> function from the sp package, but I am unsure of how to get my data in the
> correct format for the function. The generic form of the function is as
> follows:
>
> point.in.polygon(point.x, point.y, pol.x, pol.y, mode.checked=FALSE)
>
> I have no problem with the point.x and point.y inputs. I have a list of gps
> longitudes and latitudes that will go in fine. My problem is with the pol.x
> and pol.y input. My polygon is currently in the form of a
> SpatialPolygonsDataFrame created by inputting shp files with the rgdal
> package.
>
> How do I get a numerical array of the x- and y-coordinates from my polygon
> that will go into the point.in.polygon function?
>
>
>
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