How to pick up the information for the nearest associated polygon to points using R?

Question

I\'m figuring out how to do a Intersection (Spatial Join) between point and polygons from shapefiles. My idea is to get the closest points and those points that match completely

Answer 1

I have got that it's possible doing polygon to polygon overlays using sp andrgeos. You'd need to load rgeos after you load sp.

library(rgeos)
over(polygon1, polygon2)