We can tabulate the result of applying all the spatial predicates to these polygons into a table.
The details of how this is done don’t matter greatly, but if you are interested click into the code below. The core of it is based on the various st_* functions such as st_intersects or st_contains. These correspond, more or less to the relations identified in Figure 5.1. The spatial predicates available in the sf package in R correspond to those implemented in spatial databases such as PostGIS.
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