Closest Points of two Geometries — gNearestPoints • rgeos

Return closest points of two geometries.

gNearestPoints(spgeom1, spgeom2)

Arguments

spgeom1, spgeom2: sp objects as defined in package sp.

Value

The closest points of the two geometries or NULL on exception. The first point comes from spgeom1 geometry and the second point comes from spgeom2.

See also

gDistance

Author

Rainer Stuetz

Examples

g1 <- readWKT("MULTILINESTRING((34 54, 60 34), (0 10, 50 10, 100 50))")
g2 <- readWKT("MULTIPOINT(30 0, 100 30)")
plot(g1, pch=4, axes=TRUE)
plot(g2, add=TRUE)
plot(gNearestPoints(g1, g2), add=TRUE, col="red", pch=7)

gDistance(g1, g2)
#> [1] 10