Returns the nine character DE-9IM matrix describing how each pair of geometries relates, from which you can derive every named predicate.
Details
Read the string as the intersections of the interior, boundary and exterior
of x with those of y, in that order. Each character is the dimension of
that intersection: F for empty, 0 for a point, 1 for a curve, and 2
for a surface. ga_relate() returns NA for a null geometry on either side.
Examples
big <- sf::st_polygon(list(
matrix(c(0, 0, 4, 0, 4, 4, 0, 4, 0, 0), ncol = 2, byrow = TRUE)
))
x <- geoarrow::as_geoarrow_array(sf::st_sfc(big))
y <- geoarrow::as_geoarrow_array(sf::st_sfc(sf::st_point(c(2, 2))))
as.vector(ga_relate(x, y))
#> [1] "0F2FF1FF2"