Spatial* and Spatial*DataFrame objectsR/sp.R
coerce-methods.Rdas_Spatial() allows to convert sf and sfc to Spatial*DataFrame and
Spatial* for sp compatibility. You can also use as(x, "Spatial") To transform
sp objects to sf and sfc with as(x, "sf").
object of class sf, sfc_POINT, sfc_MULTIPOINT, sfc_LINESTRING,
sfc_MULTILINESTRING, sfc_POLYGON, or sfc_MULTIPOLYGON.
logical; if TRUE, st_cast() from before converting, so that e.g.
GEOMETRY objects with a mix of POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON are cast to MULTIPOLYGON.
character vector with IDs for the Spatial* geometries
geometry-only object deriving from Spatial, of the appropriate class
Package sp supports three dimensions for POINT and MULTIPOINT (SpatialPoint*).
Other geometries must be two-dimensional (XY). Dimensions can be dropped using
st_zm() with what = "M" or what = "ZM".
For converting simple features (i.e., sf objects) to their Spatial counterpart, use as(obj, "Spatial")
nc <- st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))
#> Reading layer `nc' from data source
#> `/tmp/RtmpxmZ5jE/temp_libpathf41261b39098/sf/shape/nc.shp'
#> using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
#> Simple feature collection with 100 features and 14 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -84.32385 ymin: 33.88199 xmax: -75.45698 ymax: 36.58965
#> Geodetic CRS: NAD27
if (require(sp, quietly = TRUE)) {
# convert to SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
spdf <- as_Spatial(nc)
# identical to
spdf <- as(nc, "Spatial")
# convert to SpatialPolygons
as(st_geometry(nc), "Spatial")
# back to sf
as(spdf, "sf")
}
#> Simple feature collection with 100 features and 14 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -84.32385 ymin: 33.88199 xmax: -75.45698 ymax: 36.58965
#> Geodetic CRS: NAD27
#> First 10 features:
#> AREA PERIMETER CNTY_ CNTY_ID NAME FIPS FIPSNO CRESS_ID BIR74 SID74
#> 1 0.114 1.442 1825 1825 Ashe 37009 37009 5 1091 1
#> 2 0.061 1.231 1827 1827 Alleghany 37005 37005 3 487 0
#> 3 0.143 1.630 1828 1828 Surry 37171 37171 86 3188 5
#> 4 0.070 2.968 1831 1831 Currituck 37053 37053 27 508 1
#> 5 0.153 2.206 1832 1832 Northampton 37131 37131 66 1421 9
#> 6 0.097 1.670 1833 1833 Hertford 37091 37091 46 1452 7
#> 7 0.062 1.547 1834 1834 Camden 37029 37029 15 286 0
#> 8 0.091 1.284 1835 1835 Gates 37073 37073 37 420 0
#> 9 0.118 1.421 1836 1836 Warren 37185 37185 93 968 4
#> 10 0.124 1.428 1837 1837 Stokes 37169 37169 85 1612 1
#> NWBIR74 BIR79 SID79 NWBIR79 geometry
#> 1 10 1364 0 19 MULTIPOLYGON (((-81.47276 3...
#> 2 10 542 3 12 MULTIPOLYGON (((-81.23989 3...
#> 3 208 3616 6 260 MULTIPOLYGON (((-80.45634 3...
#> 4 123 830 2 145 MULTIPOLYGON (((-76.00897 3...
#> 5 1066 1606 3 1197 MULTIPOLYGON (((-77.21767 3...
#> 6 954 1838 5 1237 MULTIPOLYGON (((-76.74506 3...
#> 7 115 350 2 139 MULTIPOLYGON (((-76.00897 3...
#> 8 254 594 2 371 MULTIPOLYGON (((-76.56251 3...
#> 9 748 1190 2 844 MULTIPOLYGON (((-78.30876 3...
#> 10 160 2038 5 176 MULTIPOLYGON (((-80.02567 3...