Re: [R-sig-Geo] Raster package writeRaster format=NCF

2010-10-06 Thread Robert J. Hijmans
Elizabeth,

Creating a raster object from a nc file is probably easiest done like this:

r - raster(filename, band=1)

Or to get the all:

b - brick(filename)

then:

ba - aggregate(b, )

Normally, you should be able to do this to save it as ncdf:

ba - writeRaster(ba, filename='out.nc')

Or in one step:

ba - aggregate(b, filename='out.nc')

However, you have uncovered a bug in writing to a ncdf file when
values are not in memory, I'll think I have fixed that  in the
development version (available from R-Forge in 24 hrs). For now, a
work around is to do 'readAll' before you use writeRaster (this will
fail if the file is too large, but that is probably not the case)

r - readAll(r)
r - writeRaster(...


Robert


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Elizabeth Crisfield ea...@psu.edu wrote:
 I have read a 10 band .nc file into R using *open.ncdf* and
 *get.var.ncdf*and I've read each band into a raster format e.g.
 *raster(data[,,1])*. I used *aggregate* to upscale the data, and now I want
 to write it back out to netcdf format. For some reason, I can write each
 band out separately (e.g. *writeRaster(newdataband1, newdataband1,
 format=CDF)* but if I *stack* the data first, I get an error when I try to
 write the stack out to netcdf. The error says *CDF is not a supported file
 format. See writeFormats()*. Sure enough, *writeFormats()* gives me a long
 list of formats that are enabled, and CDF is not in the list.

 ?

 I am running R (R 2.11.1 GUI 1.34 Leopard build 64-bit (5589)) on Mac OS X
 (10.6.4) with up-to-date packages of ncdf and Raster. I've also installed
 netcdf through MacPorts and the libraries are in /opt/local rather than
 /usr/local (I'm wondering if I have a library or path problem?)

 How can I get the writeRaster to add CDF to the list of writeFormats?

 Is there another way to reconstruct this netcdf file from the 10 raster
 layers in R? (*create.ncdf*?) Alternatively, since I think I have them
 written out to separate netcdfs I could maybe bind them back together using
 another utility outside of R?

 Thanks in advance.

 Elizabeth
 
 Elizabeth Crisfield
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 Geography Department
 Penn State University
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[R-sig-Geo] accessing raster::lineValues

2010-10-06 Thread Roman Luštrik
Recently, Robert kindly added a function to raster package (raster_1.5-14
from RForge) called lineValues. After loading the new package, I am unable
to access (or use) the function. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

 rst.cln - raster::lineValues(lns = rst.lines, rst.cellnum)
Error: 'lineValues' is not an exported object from 'namespace:raster'

 lineValues
Error: object 'lineValues' not found

 raster::lineValues
Error: 'lineValues' is not an exported object from 'namespace:raster'





 sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250  LC_CTYPE=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250
[3] LC_MONETARY=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Slovenian_Slovenia.1250

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics  grDevices utils datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] raster_1.5-14spatstat_1.20-2  deldir_0.0-12mgcv_1.6-2
[5] adehabitatMA_0.1 gpclib_1.5-1 sp_0.9-66

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.11.1lattice_0.18-8 Matrix_0.999375-39
nlme_3.1-96
[5] tools_2.11.1


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[R-sig-Geo] increment and distance in correlog

2010-10-06 Thread Jens Floeter


  
  
Hello again,

okay, i found the ncf package and the correlog function.

# correlog(x, y, z, w = NULL, increment, resamp = 100, latlon =
FALSE, na.rm = FALSE, quiet = FALSE)

my short question is:

if latlon = T and the positions are "degree, decimal-minutes"
  then increment has the unit of "km" and distance bins are in "km"
  as well - is that correct ?

I found it in the sourcecode :

 #then generating geographic distances
 if(latlon){
 #these are geographic distances from lat-lon
coordinates
 dmat - matrix(0, nrow = n, ncol = n)
 for(i in 1:(n-1)) {
 for(j in (i+1):n) {
 dmat[j, i] - gcdist(x[i], y[i],
x[j], y[j])
 dmat[i, j] - dmat[j, i]

with gcdist =

  r - 360/(2 * pi)
  lon1 - x1 / r
  lat1 - y1 / r
  lon2 - x2 / r
  lat2 - y2 / r
  dlon - lon2 - lon1
  dlat - lat2 - lat1
  a - (sin(dlat/2))^2 + cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) *
(sin(dlon/2))^2
  c - 2 * atan2( sqrt(a), sqrt(1-a) )
  return(6370 * c)
}

but i cannot the answer from thisdoes gcdist deliver km units ?

Cheers!
jens





Am 05.10.2010 12:57, schrieb Jens Floeter:
Dear
  list members,
  
  
  i need a hint - i am stuck on my search for a function.
  
  
  I would like to calculate cross-correlograms between two variables
  (predator and prey densities) and use this as an index of spatial
  overlap.
  
  
  I used the spdep pakcage and use e.g.
  
  
  sp.correlogram(xy.data.nb, prey, order = 5 , method = "I",
  zero.policy=TRUE, style = "W")
  
  sp.correlogram(xy.data.nb, predator, order = 5 , method = "I",
  zero.policy=TRUE, style = "W")
  
  
  to calculate the (auto-) correlograms for predator and prey
  individually.
  
  
  But how do i combine them to calculate the cross-correlogram ?
  
  
  Any hint would be highly appreciated...
  
  
  Best wishes !
  
  jens
  
  
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] increment and distance in correlog

2010-10-06 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Jens,

in your code snippet below, the number 6370 rings a bell. According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_radius it is close to the average
earth radius. In km. Given that there's just one such number, it seems
the code assumes a sphere is close enough to approximate the earth.


On 10/06/2010 12:37 PM, Jens Floeter wrote:
   Hello again,
 
 okay, i found the ncf package and the correlog function.
 
 # correlog(x, y, z, w = NULL, increment, resamp = 100, latlon = FALSE, na.rm 
 = 
 FALSE, quiet = FALSE)
 
 my short question is:
 
 *if latlon = T and the positions are degree, decimal-minutes then increment 
 has the unit of km and distance bins are in km as well - is that correct 
 ?*
 
 I found it in the sourcecode :
 
 #then generating geographic distances
 if(latlon){
 #these are geographic distances from lat-lon coordinates
 dmat - matrix(0, nrow = n, ncol = n)
 for(i in 1:(n-1)) {
 for(j in (i+1):n) {
 dmat[j, i] - gcdist(x[i], y[i], x[j], y[j])
 dmat[i, j] - dmat[j, i]
 
 with gcdist =
 
 r - 360/(2 * pi)
 lon1 - x1 / r
 lat1 - y1 / r
 lon2 - x2 / r
 lat2 - y2 / r
 dlon - lon2 - lon1
 dlat - lat2 - lat1
 a - (sin(dlat/2))^2 + cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) * (sin(dlon/2))^2
 c - 2 * atan2( sqrt(a), sqrt(1-a) )
 return(6370 * c)
 }
 
 but i cannot the answer from thisdoes gcdist deliver km units ?
 
 Cheers!
 jens
 
 
 
 
 
 Am 05.10.2010 12:57, schrieb Jens Floeter:
 Dear list members,

 i need a hint - i am stuck on my search for a function.

 I would like to calculate cross-correlograms between two variables (predator 
 and prey densities) and use this as an index of spatial overlap.

 I used the spdep pakcage and use e.g.

 sp.correlogram(xy.data.nb, prey, order = 5 , method = I, zero.policy=TRUE, 
 style = W)
 sp.correlogram(xy.data.nb, predator, order = 5 , method = I, 
 zero.policy=TRUE, style = W)

 to calculate the (auto-) correlograms for predator and prey individually.

 But how do i combine them to calculate the cross-correlogram ?

 Any hint would be highly appreciated...

 Best wishes !
 jens

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[R-sig-Geo] Basic Info. requried

2010-10-06 Thread Malik Shahzad

I want to read Iknos image and then want to see display in R. Just read and 
display nothing else.
I try using raster package 
 
 rasterfile-system.file(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif,package=raster)

Then plot with the help of this command 
 
 plot(rasterfile)

Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'ylim' values
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

Need help from where I can learn basic things, I already read raster package 
manual but unable to see the image.

 

with Best Regards,
 
Malik Shahzad
Visiting Researcher
National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Tokyo, Japan
 
Doctoral Student
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Bangkok, Thailand
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Basic Info. requried

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Hiemstra

Hi Malik,

To a look at the rgdal package to read your tiff file and spplot from 
the sp package to plot it.


cheers,
Paul

On 10/06/2010 01:36 PM, Malik Shahzad wrote:

I want to read Iknos image and then want to see display in R. Just read and 
display nothing else.
I try using raster package

   

rasterfile-system.file(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif,package=raster)
 

Then plot with the help of this command

   

plot(rasterfile)
 

Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'ylim' values
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

Need help from where I can learn basic things, I already read raster package 
manual but unable to see the image.



with Best Regards,

Malik Shahzad
Visiting Researcher
National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Tokyo, Japan

Doctoral Student
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Bangkok, Thailand
+66-8-7676-5616





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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Basic Info. requried

2010-10-06 Thread kapo coulibaly
I believe there is a mistake in your command. You skipped the raster
command itself. From the raster help files here is the correct way:

r - raster(system.file(external/test.grd, package=raster))



On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Malik Shahzad geoma...@live.com wrote:


 I want to read Iknos image and then want to see display in R. Just read and
 display nothing else.
 I try using raster package

 
 rasterfile-system.file(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif,package=raster)

 Then plot with the help of this command

  plot(rasterfile)

 Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'ylim' values
 In addition: Warning messages:
 1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
 2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

 Need help from where I can learn basic things, I already read raster
 package manual but unable to see the image.



 with Best Regards,

 Malik Shahzad
 Visiting Researcher
 National Institute of Informatics (NII)
 Tokyo, Japan

 Doctoral Student
 Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
 Bangkok, Thailand
 +66-8-7676-5616





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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Basic Info. requried

2010-10-06 Thread Robert J. Hijmans
Indeed, and as Malik is not using a system file (files packaged with
R to serve as examples), you can should leave that bit out and do:

r -raster(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif')

plot(r)

Robert

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, kapo coulibaly kmcou...@gmail.com wrote:
 I believe there is a mistake in your command. You skipped the raster
 command itself. From the raster help files here is the correct way:

 r - raster(system.file(external/test.grd, package=raster))



 On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Malik Shahzad geoma...@live.com wrote:


 I want to read Iknos image and then want to see display in R. Just read and
 display nothing else.
 I try using raster package

 
 rasterfile-system.file(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif,package=raster)

 Then plot with the help of this command

  plot(rasterfile)

 Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'ylim' values
 In addition: Warning messages:
 1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
 2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf

 Need help from where I can learn basic things, I already read raster
 package manual but unable to see the image.



 with Best Regards,

 Malik Shahzad
 Visiting Researcher
 National Institute of Informatics (NII)
 Tokyo, Japan

 Doctoral Student
 Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
 Bangkok, Thailand
 +66-8-7676-5616





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[R-sig-Geo] R Basic Info. requried

2010-10-06 Thread Malik Shahzad

Dear thanks for help,

In first line there is no problem

 

rasterfile-system.file(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif,package=raster)

 

This works fine without any error, It mean image has been loaded into variable 
raster file, but now how i can display raster file in R. I mean I want to see 
my image that is stored in this variable. When I use plot(rasterfile) it shows 
error. Before this I work with rImage package to load image(*.jpg) file and 
then show with the help of plot(image). it works there fine and I can see image 
but now I am unable to see my output. 

 

I hope you got my point.

with Best Regards,
 
Malik Shahzad
Visiting Researcher
National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Tokyo, Japan
 
Doctoral Student
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Bangkok, Thailand
+66-8-7676-5616



 
 Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:49:35 +0300
 Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Basic Info. requried
 From: r.hijm...@gmail.com
 To: kmcou...@gmail.com
 CC: geoma...@live.com; r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch
 
 Indeed, and as Malik is not using a system file (files packaged with
 R to serve as examples), you can should leave that bit out and do:
 
 r -raster(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif')
 
 plot(r)
 
 Robert
 
 On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, kapo coulibaly kmcou...@gmail.com wrote:
  I believe there is a mistake in your command. You skipped the raster
  command itself. From the raster help files here is the correct way:
 
  r - raster(system.file(external/test.grd, package=raster))
 
 
 
  On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Malik Shahzad geoma...@live.com wrote:
 
 
  I want to read Iknos image and then want to see display in R. Just read and
  display nothing else.
  I try using raster package
 
  
  rasterfile-system.file(C:/iknos/edwards_airbase_usa_1m_tc.tif,package=raster)
 
  Then plot with the help of this command
 
   plot(rasterfile)
 
  Error in plot.window(...) : need finite 'ylim' values
  In addition: Warning messages:
  1: In min(x) : no non-missing arguments to min; returning Inf
  2: In max(x) : no non-missing arguments to max; returning -Inf
 
  Need help from where I can learn basic things, I already read raster
  package manual but unable to see the image.
 
 
 
  with Best Regards,
 
  Malik Shahzad
  Visiting Researcher
  National Institute of Informatics (NII)
  Tokyo, Japan
 
  Doctoral Student
  Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
  Bangkok, Thailand
  +66-8-7676-5616
 
 
 
 
 
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[R-sig-Geo] spatial correlogram

2010-10-06 Thread tara

Hello 
I am trying to use the correlog function to estimate a spatial correlogram
for the residuals of a logistic regression and I have run accross the
following error. 
  
 summary(binom1 - glm(Use~X20mslop+X20mdem+soilsst, family=binomial, 
+ data=M60m2000NE_1.df)) 

 correlog1.1 - correlog(M60m2000NE_1.df$X, M60m2000NE_1.df$Y,
 residuals(binom1),w=NULL, 
+ na.rm=T, increment=1, resamp=0) 

Error in split.default(moran, dkl) : 
  Group length is 0 but data length  0 

Can anyone help me to understand what this error is referring to and suggest
how I can fix it? 
Thanks 
Tara 
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http://r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/file/n5607783/Modified60m2000TrainingSetANoEcotour_05_25B.csv
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Re: [R-sig-Geo] Why can you not calculate Moran's i for glm() residuals?

2010-10-06 Thread tara


Hello Jenn

Unfortunately I can not offer any advice but I am facing very similar
challenges and actively searching for answers. I have presence/absence data
for a colonial species and I am trying to compare the performance of a
logistic model with spatial models: 1) a glm including an autocovariate and
2) a glmm. Currently I have resorted to using spatial correlograms for
visual inspection of residual spatial autocorrelation (interesting that we
both came up with the same posible option). Not ideal and I have not found
any information as to whether this is valid but I am stumped. 
I was wondering if you have found any more information on the topics you
described and if so would you mind sharing what you found with me. I will
certainly return the favour. 

Thanks so much and Good Luck! 

Sincerely 
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[R-sig-Geo] spplot with two SpatialPolygonsDataFrame: 1) filling background polygon; 2) left justifying text

2010-10-06 Thread Lyndon Estes
Greetings,

I have two questions/problems related to spplot:

1. I am trying to plot one SpatialPolygonsDataFrame over another, and
fill the background polygon with grey. I can't seem to fill the
background polygon without having it cover over my supposed foreground
polygon, even if I specify first = T (which fails):

link1 - http://sites.google.com/site/ldemisc/spplot-question/demo.mdshp.RData;
link2 - http://sites.google.com/site/ldemisc/spplot-question/demo.sashp.RData;

load(url(link1)); load(url(link2))

# Set up plot background shape and additional text

#sa.lst = list(sp.polygons, sa.shp, fill = grey, col = black) #
Covers over md.shp
#sa.lst = list(sp.polygons, sa.shp, fill = grey, first = F, col =
black) # Covers over md.shp
#sa.lst = list(sp.polygons, sa.shp, fill = grey, first = T, col =
black) # sa.shp doesn't plot
sa.lst = list(sp.polygons, sa.shp, col = black)  # Shape of South
Africa as background polygon -
 #   works, but no fill

# Additional text - overall mean yield.
text1 - list(sp.text, c(36, -321),
 paste(Overall mean yield =,
round(mean(md@data[-c(22,69), 4]), 0), kg/ha),
 col =red, cex = 1)

# Scale bar limits and title
scmax  - round(max(md@data[, 4]) / 50, 0) * 50
scmin  - round(min(md@data[, 4]) / 50, 0) * 50
byval  - 25
titlevec - Mean district maize yields (kg/ha) 1981-99: Cultivar PAN6528

# Spplot
dev.new()
spplot(md.shp[-c(22,69),], z = 4,
   sp.layout = list(sa.lst, text1),
   col.regions = topo.colors(500),
   at = seq(scmin, scmax, by = byval),
   main = titlevec)

Any advice on how to correctly set sa.lst so that sa.shp fills
underneat md.shp will be much appreciated.  I haven't been able to
find a ready answer in the help files, except for this:

The order of items in sp.layout matters; objects are drawn in the
order they appear. Plot order and prevalence of sp.layout items: for
points and lines, sp.layout items are drawn before the points (to
allow for grids and polygons); for grids and polygons sp.layout is
drawn afterwards (so the item will not be overdrawn by the grid and/or
polygon). Although a matter of taste, transparency may help when
combining things. 

But, beyond what I have tried so far, I can't figure out how to write
the code so that sa.shp is drawn first.

The second question:

2. Is there an option to pass to:

text1 - list(sp.text, c(36, -321),
 paste(Overall mean yield =,
round(mean(md@data[-c(22,69), 4]), 0), kg/ha),
 col =red, cex = 1)

so that the text is left-justified on the coordinates  c(36,
-321)? At the moment it seems that the text is centered at this
location.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Best, Lyndon

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