Hi Sam,
x2 should be available as whatever name you assigned to it, e.g. as
your.object in the following:
your.object <- joinAttributeTable(polyshape, dframe, xcolname, ycolname)
Anyway, glad it at least still work for the reordering issue.
Cheers, Lyndon
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Sam Rabin <sra...@princeton.edu> wrote:
> Lyndon —
>
> I couldn't figure out how to get x2 out of the function and into my workspace
> so I could save it as a shapefile. I instead converted your code into a
> script to run it, and it works like a charm. Thanks very much!
>
> Sam
>
>
>
> On Nov 2, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Lyndon Estes wrote:
>
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> I wrote the following function a while ago to account for this problem
>> of dataframe row reordering relative to the polygon IDs:
>>
>> joinAttributeTable <- function(x, y, xcol, ycol) {
>> # Merges data frame to SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, keeping the correct
>> order. Code from suggestions at:
>> # https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2008-January/003064.html
>> # Args:
>> # x: SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
>> # y: Name of data.frame to merge
>> # xcol: Merge column name
>> # ycol: Merge column name
>> # Returns: Shapefile with merged attribute table
>>
>> x$sort_id <- 1:nrow(as(x, "data.frame")) # Column containing
>> original row order for later sorting
>>
>> x.dat <- as(x, "data.frame") # Create new data.frame object
>> x.dat2 <- merge(x.dat, y, by.x = xcol, by.y = ycol) # Merge
>> x.dat2.ord <- x.dat2[order(x.dat2$sort_id), ] # Reorder back to original
>> x2 <- x[x$sort_id %in% x.dat2$sort_id, ] # Make new set of polygons,
>> dropping those which aren't in merge
>> x2.dat <- as(x2, "data.frame") # Make updated x2 into a data.frame
>> row.names(x.dat2.ord) <- row.names(x2.dat) # Reassign row.names from
>> original data.frame
>> x2@data <- x.dat2.ord # Assign to shapefile the new data.frame
>> return(x2)
>> }
>>
>> I haven't used this in a while, so I hope it still works. I think
>> others could suggest a more efficient, existing method for dealing
>> with this as well.
>>
>> Cheers, Lyndon
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Sam Rabin <sra...@princeton.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I have a shapefile (.shp) containing the Landsat grid coverage of South
>>> America. I also have 97 other shapefiles, each of which covers one of the
>>> Landsat grid cells (the 97 being a subset of the cells in the first
>>> shapefile). I managed to get R (via maptools) to perform a calculation on
>>> each of the 97 and put the results in a data frame. Among other things,
>>> this data frame contains a column for grid cell ID that matches up with a
>>> column in the Landsat grid shapefile. I used merge() to combine these and
>>> then saved a new shapefile, following the instructions at
>>> http://help.nceas.ucsb.edu/R:_Spatial#Append_a_second_set_of_attributes_to_a_spatial_data_file.27s_attribute_table.
>>> Here is the code I used:
>>>
>>> require(maptools)
>>> landsat1 = readShapePoly("landsat_grid")
>>> # Make a backup
>>> landsat_orig = landsat1
>>> landsat_2_spdf =
>>> merge(landsat1@data,newcalc,by.x="PR",by.y="pr2",all.x=TRUE,sort=FALSE)
>>> landsat1@data = landsat_2_spdf
>>> writeSpatialShape(landsat1, "methodA")
>>>
>>> Looking at the new data with
>>>
>>> View(landsat1@data),
>>>
>>> it seemed like everything went great. The ID's matched up perfectly, and I
>>> checked some of the calculated figures and they matched, too. The polygons
>>> from landsat_grid.shp that were not included in the 97 were assigned NA for
>>> the column with the calculated figures, appropriately.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, when I imported the new shapefile to my GIS program, all the
>>> tiles were rearranged. screenshot_expectedcoverage
>>> (http://tinyurl.com/3nbm3q7 ) shows fine-scale data for what I was
>>> expecting (Amazonia; imagine a polygon drawn around all the data there),
>>> and screenshot_methodA (http://tinyurl.com/3htvlga) shows what I got. (Only
>>> the 97 polygons are shown.)
>>>
>>> I tried changing sort to TRUE in the fourth line (and the output shapefile
>>> name to "methodB"), but the tiles are still messed up, just differently —
>>> see screenshot_methodB (http://tinyurl.com/3h95vr3).
>>>
>>> In both shape files, the attribute tables look fine, but the tiles are just
>>> totally rearranged. They're not all scattered over the world, either. In
>>> screenshot_rearrangement (which shows all tiles, not just the 97)
>>> (http://tinyurl.com/6xfabvm), you can see that they cover South America
>>> perfectly — they all line up with the polygons from landsat_grid.shp (not
>>> shown).
>>>
>>> What do I need to do to fix this?
>>>
>>> Thanks very much in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sam Rabin
>>> Graduate student
>>> Princeton University
>>> Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
>>>
>>>
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