title: How to calculate distance between geographic points and boundaries?
body: <p>I have around 50,000 geocoded properties and need to find the distance between the properties, formatted as spatial points, to the nearest school zone boundary which is formatted as a spatial polyogon. I'm able to associate and map the points and polygons together, and I've joined the school zone attributes to the properties that are located in the specific school zone with QGIS, but I need the distance. Ideally I'd like to do this in QGIS or R, but I'm open to anything else that could do it.</p>