La réponse et les indices de Spacedman ci-dessus étaient utiles, mais ne constituent pas en soi une réponse complète. Après quelques travaux de détective de ma part, je me suis rapproché d'une réponse bien que je n'aie pas encore réussi à obtenir gIntersection
ce que je voulais (voir la question d'origine ci-dessus). Pourtant, je l' ai réussi à obtenir mon nouveau polygone dans le SpatialPolygonsDataFrame.
MISE À JOUR 2012-11-11: Il me semble avoir trouvé une solution viable (voir ci-dessous). La clé était d'envelopper les polygones dans un SpatialPolygons
appel lors de l'utilisation à gIntersection
partir du rgeos
package. La sortie ressemble à ceci:
[1] "Haverfordwest: Portfield ED (poly 2) area = 1202564.3, intersect = 143019.3, intersect % = 11.9%"
[1] "Haverfordwest: Prendergast ED (poly 3) area = 1766933.7, intersect = 100870.4, intersect % = 5.7%"
[1] "Haverfordwest: Castle ED (poly 4) area = 683977.7, intersect = 338606.7, intersect % = 49.5%"
[1] "Haverfordwest: Garth ED (poly 5) area = 1861675.1, intersect = 417503.7, intersect % = 22.4%"
L'insertion du polygone a été plus difficile que je ne le pensais car, de façon surprenante, il ne semble pas y avoir d'exemple facile à suivre pour insérer une nouvelle forme dans un fichier de formes dérivé de l'Ordnance Survey. J'ai reproduit mes étapes ici dans l'espoir qu'elles seront utiles à quelqu'un d'autre. Le résultat est une carte comme celle-ci.

Si / quand je résous le problème d'intersection, je modifierai cette réponse et ajouterai les étapes finales, à moins, bien sûr, que quelqu'un ne me batte et ne fournisse une réponse complète. En attendant, les commentaires / conseils sur ma solution jusqu'à présent sont tous les bienvenus.
Le code suit.
require(sp) # the classes and methods that make up spatial ops in R
require(maptools) # tools for reading and manipulating spatial objects
require(mapdata) # includes good vector maps of world political boundaries.
require(rgeos)
require(rgdal)
require(gpclib)
require(ggplot2)
require(scales)
gpclibPermit()
## Download the Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line data (large!) from this URL:
## https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html
## then extract all the files to a local folder.
## Read the electoral division (ward) boundaries from the shapefile
shp1 <- readOGR("C:/test", layer = "unitary_electoral_division_region")
## First subset down to the electoral divisions for the county of Pembrokeshire...
shp2 <- shp1[shp1$FILE_NAME == "SIR BENFRO - PEMBROKESHIRE" | shp1$FILE_NAME == "SIR_BENFRO_-_PEMBROKESHIRE", ]
## ... then the electoral divisions for the town of Haverfordwest (this could be done in one step)
shp3 <- shp2[grep("haverford", shp2$NAME, ignore.case = TRUE),]
## Create a matrix holding the long/lat coordinates of the desired new shape;
## one coordinate pair per line makes it easier to visualise the coordinates
my.coord.pairs <- c(
194500,215500,
194500,216500,
195500,216500,
195500,215500,
194500,215500)
my.rows <- length(my.coord.pairs)/2
my.coords <- matrix(my.coord.pairs, nrow = my.rows, ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE)
## The Ordnance Survey-derived SpatialPolygonsDataFrame is rather complex, so
## rather than creating a new one from scratch, copy one row and use this as a
## template for the new polygon. This wouldn't be ideal for complex/multiple new
## polygons but for just one simple polygon it seems to work
newpoly <- shp3[1,]
## Replace the coords of the template polygon with our own coordinates
newpoly@polygons[[1]]@Polygons[[1]]@coords <- my.coords
## Change the name as well
newpoly@data$NAME <- "zzMyPoly" # polygons seem to be plotted in alphabetical
# order so make sure it is plotted last
## The IDs must not be identical otherwise the spRbind call will not work
## so use the spCHFIDs to assign new IDs; it looks like anything sensible will do
newpoly2 <- spChFIDs(newpoly, paste("newid", 1:nrow(newpoly), sep = ""))
## Now we should be able to insert the new polygon into the existing SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
shp4 <- spRbind(shp3, newpoly2)
## We want a visual check of the map with the new polygon but
## ggplot requires a data frame, so use the fortify() function
mydf <- fortify(shp4, region = "NAME")
## Make a distinction between the underlying shapes and the new polygon
## so that we can manually set the colours
mydf$filltype <- ifelse(mydf$id == 'zzMyPoly', "colour1", "colour2")
## Now plot
ggplot(mydf, aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group)) +
geom_polygon(colour = "black", size = 1, aes(fill = mydf$filltype)) +
scale_fill_manual("Test", values = c(alpha("Red", 0.4), "white"), labels = c("a", "b"))
## Visual check, successful, so back to the original problem of finding intersections
overlaid.poly <- 6 # This is the index of the polygon we added
num.of.polys <- length(shp4@polygons)
all.polys <- 1:num.of.polys
all.polys <- all.polys[-overlaid.poly] # Remove the overlaid polygon - no point in comparing to self
all.polys <- all.polys[-1] ## In this case the visual check we did shows that the
## first polygon doesn't intersect overlaid poly, so remove
## Display example intersection for a visual check - note use of SpatialPolygons()
plot(gIntersection(SpatialPolygons(shp4@polygons[3]), SpatialPolygons(shp4@polygons[6])))
## Calculate and print out intersecting area as % total area for each polygon
areas.list <- sapply(all.polys, function(x) {
my.area <- shp4@polygons[[x]]@Polygons[[1]]@area # the OS data contains area
intersected.area <- gArea(gIntersection(SpatialPolygons(shp4@polygons[x]), SpatialPolygons(shp4@polygons[overlaid.poly])))
print(paste(shp4@data$NAME[x], " (poly ", x, ") area = ", round(my.area, 1), ", intersect = ", round(intersected.area, 1), ", intersect % = ", sprintf("%1.1f%%", 100*intersected.area/my.area), sep = ""))
return(intersected.area) # return the intersected area for future use
})
library(scales)
faut maintenant ajouter pour que la transparence fonctionne.