Intersecting Points and Polygons in R

Question

I am working with shapefiles in R, one is point.shp the other is a polygon.shp. Now, I would like to intersect the points with the polygon, meaning that all

Answer 1

You do this in one line with point.in.poly fom spatialEco package.

library(spatialEco)

new_shape <- point.in.poly(pts, polys)

from the documentation: point.in.poly "intersects point and polygon feature classes and adds polygon attributes to points".