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Identify polygon neighbors

Usage

st_contiguity(x, queen = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x

an sf or sfc object.

queen

default TRUE. For more see ?spdep::poly2nb

...

additional arguments passed to spdep::poly2nb()

See also

Other neighbors: st_knn(), st_nb_band()

Examples

# on basic polygons
geo <- sf::st_geometry(guerry)
st_contiguity(geo)
#> Neighbour list object:
#> Number of regions: 85 
#> Number of nonzero links: 420 
#> Percentage nonzero weights: 5.813149 
#> Average number of links: 4.941176 

# in a pipe
guerry %>%
  dplyr::mutate(nb = st_contiguity(geometry), .before = 1)
#> Simple feature collection with 85 features and 27 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -5.139026 ymin: 42.33349 xmax: 8.23032 ymax: 51.08939
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84
#> # A tibble: 85 × 28
#>    nb        code_dept count ave_id_geo  dept region department   crime_pers
#>  * <nb>      <fct>     <dbl>      <dbl> <int> <fct>  <fct>             <int>
#>  1 <int [4]> 01            1         49     1 E      Ain               28870
#>  2 <int [6]> 02            1        812     2 N      Aisne             26226
#>  3 <int [6]> 03            1       1418     3 C      Allier            26747
#>  4 <int [4]> 04            1       1603     4 E      Basses-Alpes      12935
#>  5 <int [3]> 05            1       1802     5 E      Hautes-Alpes      17488
#>  6 <int [7]> 07            1       2249     7 S      Ardeche            9474
#>  7 <int [3]> 08            1      35395     8 N      Ardennes          35203
#>  8 <int [3]> 09            1       2526     9 S      Ariege             6173
#>  9 <int [5]> 10            1      34410    10 E      Aube              19602
#> 10 <int [5]> 11            1       2807    11 S      Aude              15647
#> # … with 75 more rows, and 20 more variables: crime_prop <int>, literacy <int>,
#> #   donations <int>, infants <int>, suicides <int>, main_city <ord>,
#> #   wealth <int>, commerce <int>, clergy <int>, crime_parents <int>,
#> #   infanticide <int>, donation_clergy <int>, lottery <int>, desertion <int>,
#> #   instruction <int>, prostitutes <int>, distance <dbl>, area <int>,
#> #   pop1831 <dbl>, geometry <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>