title: Intersecting Points and Polygons in R
body: <p>I am working with shapefiles in <strong>R</strong>, one is point.shp the other is a polygon.shp.
  Now, I would like to intersect the points with the polygon, meaning that all the values from the polygon should be attached to the table of the point.shp.</p>
  
  <p>I tried overlay() and spRbind in package sp, but nothing did what I expected them to do. </p>
  
  <p>Could anyone give me a hint?</p>