How to change class from data frame to spatial polygon?

Question

I have found the same in here How to Convert data frame to spatial coordinates. But in my case, I got very large data.

exchange    longitude   latitude
AB  103.3         


        

Answer 1

my data is just the same as the other post [...] So anyone can help me to change classfrom data.frame to spatial polygon?

library(sp)
sp <- SpatialPolygons(list(Polygons(list(Polygon(mydf[, -1])), ID=1)))
class(sp)
# [1] "SpatialPolygons"
# attr(,"package")
# [1] "sp"

or, if you want exchange to be the polygon identifier:

sp <- lapply(split(mydf[, -1], mydf[, 1]), Polygon)
sp <- SpatialPolygons(lapply(seq_along(sp), function(i) { 
  Polygons(list(sp[[i]]), ID = row.names(mydf[!duplicated(mydf[, 1]), ])[i] ) 
}))
# class(sp)
# [1] "SpatialPolygons"
# attr(,"package")
# [1] "sp"

Data:

mydf <- read.table(header=T, text="
exchange   longitude   latitude
AB  103.3281386 1.594218196
AB  103.3285929 1.593990735
AB  103.3312494 1.591424235
AB  103.3283736 1.594063254
AB  103.3536164 1.622771588
AB  103.3613242 1.627138676
AB  103.3560151 1.619455334
AB  103.3297071 1.593398614
AB  103.3269466 1.596574285
AB  103.3279517 1.593614052
AB  103.3281356 1.593848271
AB  103.3567136 1.620498495
AB  103.3668021 1.63456952
AB  103.359686  1.624821271
AB  103.3308963 1.585290892
AB  103.3319569 1.59104387
AB  103.3307149 1.592006748
AB  103.3283657 1.593675616
AB  103.3314873 1.591186363
AB  103.3319648 1.590585241
AB  103.3321508 1.590422594
AB  103.3318503 1.588685843
AB  103.3324507 1.594547225
AB  103.3442528 1.60909707
AB  103.3292733 1.593461728
AB  103.3288584 1.594312512
AB  103.329041  1.594135083
AB  103.3348961 1.59761749
AB  103.3500524 1.614224612")