count the number of points/vertices/nodes of sf objects

Source: R/sf.R

count the number of points/vertices/nodes of sf objects

npts(x, by_feature = FALSE)

Arguments

x

an sf/sfc object
by_feature

count total number of vertices (FALSE) of for each feature (TRUE).

Note

currently only works for *POINTS, *LINES and *POLYGONS (not GEOMETRYCOLLECTION).

Examples

npts(franconia)

#> [1] 5858
npts(franconia, by_feature = TRUE)

#>  [1]  27  61  47  43 288 331 238 146 232 159 164 153 125  53  39  36 109  33 341
#> [20] 244  98 220 220 232 174  40  33  52 191 212 208 202 153 186 240 245 283
npts(sf::st_geometry(franconia[1, ])) # first polygon

#> [1] 27

npts(breweries) # is the same as

#> [1] 224
nrow(breweries)

#> [1] 224