How to calculate the area of polygon overlap in R?

Question

Does anyone know how to calculate the area in common between 2 or more polygons in R? I would like to have the output of such a calculation be the coordinates of a new polyg

Answer 1

Just thought I would add the solution that I eventually used - the joinPolys function from the PBSmapping package.

Example:

library(PBSmapping)
p1 <- data.frame(PID=rep(1, 4), POS=1:4, X=c(1,1,6,6), Y=c(1,3,3,1))
p2 <- data.frame(PID=rep(2, 5), POS=1:5, X=c(4,4,8,8,6), Y=c(2,4,4,2,1))
p3 <- joinPolys(p1,p2)
x11()
par(mar=c(3,3,1,1))
plot(1,1,ylim=c(0,5),xlim=c(0,9), t="n", xlab="", ylab="")
polygon(p1$X, p1$Y, border=2)
polygon(p2$X, p2$Y)
polygon(p3$X, p3$Y, col=rgb(0,0,1,0.2))