Spatial manipulation with sf: : CHEAT SHEET

The sf package provides a set of tools for working with geospatial vectors, i.e. points, lines, polygons, etc. sf
Geometric confirmation Geometric operations Geometry creation
st_contains(x, y, ...) Identifies if x is within y st_boundary(x) Creates a polygon that st_triangulate(x, dTolerance, bOnlyEdges)
(i.e. point within polygon) encompasses the full extent of the geometry Creates polygon geometry as triangles from
point geometry
st_covered_by(x, y, ...) Identifies if x is st_buffer(x, dist, nQuadSegs) Creates a polygon
completely within y (i.e. polygon completely covering all points of the geometry within a st_voronoi(x, envelope, dTolerance, bOnlyEdges)
within polygon) given distance Creates polygon geometry covering the envolope
of x, with x at the centre of the geometry
st_covers(x, y, ...) Identifies if any point from st_centroid(x, ..., of_largest_polygon)
x is outside of y (i.e. polygon outside polygon) Creates a point at the geometric centre of st_point(x, c(numeric vector), dim = "XYZ")
the geometry Creating point geometry from numeric values
st_crosses(x, y, ...) Identifies if any geometry
of x have commonalities with y st_convex_hull(x) Creates geometry that st_multipoint(x = matrix(numeric values in
represents the minimum convex geometry of x rows), dim = "XYZ") Creating multi point
st_disjoint(x, y, ...) Identifies when geometries geometry from numeric values
from x do not share space with y st_line_merge(x) Creates linestring geometry
from sewing multi linestring geometry together st_linestring(x = matrix(numeric values in
rows), dim = "XYZ") Creating linestring geometry
st_equals(x, y, ...) Identifies if x and y share st_node(x) Creates nodes on overlapping from numeric values
the same geometry geometry where nodes do not exist
st_multilinestring(x = list(numeric matricesin
st_intersects(x, y, ...) Identifies if x and y st_point_on_surface(x) Creates a point that is rows), dim = "XYZ") Creating multi linestring
geometry share any space guarenteed to fall on the surface of the geometry geometry from numeric values

st_overlaps(x, y, ...) Identifies if geometries st_polygonize(x) Creates polygon geometry st_polygon(x = list(numeric matrices in rows),
of x and y share space, are of the same from linestring geometry dim = "XYZ") Creating polygon geometry from
dimension, but are not completely contained numeric values
st_segmentize(x, dfMaxLength, ...) Creates
by each other st_multipolygon(x = list(numeric matrices in
linesting geometry from x based on a specified
length rows), dim = "XYZ") Creating multi polygon
st_touches(x, y, ...) Identifies if geometries
geometry from numeric values
of x and y share a common point but their
st_simplify(x, preserveTopology, dTolerance)
interiors do not intersect
Creates a simplified version of the geometry
st_within(x, y, ...) Identifies if x is in a specified based on a specified tolerance
distance to y

+ =>

ggplot() + ggplot() + ggplot() +

geom_sf(data = schools) geom_sf(data = subway) geom_sf(data = st_intersection(schools, st_buffer(subway, 1000)))

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Spatial manipulation with sf: : CHEAT SHEET
The sf package provides a set of tools for working with geospatial vectors, i.e. points, lines, polygons, etc. sf
Geometry operations Misc operations
st_contains(x, y, ...) Identifies if x is within y st_cast(x, to, ...) Change x geometry to a different
(i.e. point within polygon) geometry type

st_crop(x, y, ..., xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax) Creates st_coordinates(x, ...) Creates a matrix of coordinate values
geometry of x that intersects a specified rectangle from x

st_difference(x, y) Creates geometry from x that st_crs(x, ...) Identifies the coordinate reference system
does not intersect with y of x

st_intersection(x, y) Creates geometry of the st_join(x, y, join, FUN, suffix, ...) Performs a spatial left or
shared portion of x and y inner join between x and y

st_sym_difference(x, y) Creates geometry st_make_grid(x, cellsize, offset, n, crs, what) Creates

representing portions of x and y that do not rectangular grid geometry over the bounding box of x
intersect
st_nearest_feature(x, y) Creates an index of the closest
st_snap(x, y, tolerance) Snap nodes from geometry feature between x and y
x to geometry y
st_nearest_points(x, y, ...) Returns the closest point
st_union(x, y, ..., by_feature) Creates multiple between x and y
geometries into a a single geometry, consisiting of
all geometry elements st_transform(x, crs, ...) Convert coordinates of x to a
different coordinate reference system
ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = cdn) +
coord_sf(crs = st_crs(4326))

Geometric measurement
st_area(x) Calculate the surface area of a polygon
geometry based on the current coordinate reference system

st_distance(x, y, ..., dist_fun, by_element, which)

Calculates the 2D distance between x and y based on the
current coordinate system

st_length(x) Calculates the 2D length of a geometry based

on the current coordinate system

ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = cdn) +
coord_sf(crs = st_crs(3347))

This cheatsheet presents the sf package [Edzer Pebesma 2018] in version 0.6.3. See https://github.com/r-spatial/sf for more details. CC BY Ryan Garnett http://github.com/ryangarnett
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/