[GRASS-user] Re: Using R to check points in polygons does not work

[Roger Bivand]

Corrado <ct529 <at> york.ac.uk> writes:

> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> Platform: Ubuntu 7.10, Grass 6.2.3,PostgresSQL 8.2,R 2.6.2
> 
> Yes, I am in a hurry. If I do not solve it by tomorrow, then it is back to 
> ARCGIS I am afraid. It is not my will, of course, but the project's leader is 
> already not keen on switching to GRASS, so she is pressing for me to solve it 
> using ARCGIS. :(

However it goes, good luck! In any case, please keep notes, because at speed
it's easy to mix up either species, or conservation areas (or both).

I'm pretty certain overlay() on the points and polygons will give you what you
need, first for the straight polygons, then for their buffers.

Roger