Re: [R-sig-Geo] spatial distribution of two species and nest design

2014-02-19 Thread ldecola
don't forget to make descriptive maps of the species, nests, surrounding features, land use etc - include scale bars, north arrows (if not obvious)... Lee De Cola - Original Message - From: "Lutfor" To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:06:22 AM Subject:

Re: [R-sig-Geo] projecting data from decimal degrees to meters

2014-02-17 Thread ldecola
Tiago, if you're not familiar with geographic projections: 1. look at the wikipedia article, 2. check out (from the library) a geography textbook, and 3. try out the examples at the end of the helpfile for spTransform-methods {rgdal} - add plenty of plot() commands to see what's go

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spacetime regression

2014-02-13 Thread ldecola
when confronted with a large dataset i usually begin by trying methods out on subsets, e.g. start with 2^n for n = 8 and work your way up to 2^17... you might find convergence to the answer to your questions before analyzing the full dataset. Lee De Cola - Original Message - From: "R

Re: [R-sig-Geo] a spatial bestiary?

2013-12-26 Thread ldecola
you can find a first cut at presenting BASE and SPATIAL objects at : http://ldecola.net/programs/R/bestiary.R i'll be using this in spatial R workshops i conduct and would appreciate comments! Lee De Cola. - Original Message - From: "Etienne B. Racine" To: "Lee De Cola" Cc: r-s

Re: [R-sig-Geo] a spatial bestiary?

2013-12-21 Thread ldecola
Racine and Rowlingson’s pages are a nice ways of presenting information. Now suppose we start with the simplest genus – points, which have 3 species: matrix {base} ppp {spatstat} SpatialPoints {sp} For an object of one of these classes a student would want to know how to: 1. construct 2

[R-sig-Geo] a spatial bestiary?

2013-12-13 Thread ldecola
I’ve been teaching and using R (and S-PLUS) for a couple of decades, and using its spatial libraries for about half of that, but i still get confused by the various ‘geographically-aware’ data objects that are supported. Although Bivand’s Spatial.html page is quite helpful, I wonder i

Re: [R-sig-Geo] original coordinates of the redwood data?

2013-12-05 Thread ldecola
so i may quote Prof Rowlingson as stating that "...coordinate labels, ...a scale bar, north arrow...[are] chart junk"? Lee De Cola - Original Message - From: "Barry Rowlingson" To: "Marcelino de la Cruz" Cc: r-sig-geo@r-project.org Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:04:27 AM Subje

Re: [R-sig-Geo] original coordinates of the redwood data?

2013-12-04 Thread ldecola
here's what i'll do: mult <- 130 trees <- ppp( mult * redwoodfull$x, mult * redwoodfull$y, c(0, mult), c(0, mult), unitname = c('meter', 'meters') ) it is unscientific to analyze empirical data in other than the original geographic units - how else can we speak meaningfully e.g. of 'bandw

Re: [R-sig-Geo] original coordinates of the redwood data?

2013-12-04 Thread ldecola
my apologies for failing to read the help file...now i wonder who found the original measurements! Lee De Cola. - Original Message - From: "Marcelino de la Cruz" To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 3:01:51 PM Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] original coordinates o

[R-sig-Geo] original coordinates of the redwood data?

2013-12-04 Thread ldecola
does anyone know the original, true coordinates of the spatstat redwoodfull data? i can't find them in: Strauss, D. J. (1975). "A Model for Clustering." Biometrika 62(2): 467-475. i think reporting spatial data in rescaled units is unscientific. Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight lde

Re: [R-sig-Geo] rasterize SpatialLines

2013-11-28 Thread ldecola
don't forget to do this at multiple raster resolutions in order to compute the box-count dimension! Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 703 709 6972 571 315 0577 mobile - Original Message - From: "Alexandre Villers" To: "Aide R SIG GEO"

Re: [R-sig-Geo] where's spatstat?

2013-11-27 Thread ldecola
that worked...thanks - i'm giving a workshop next week and will ask participants to be running the latest version. Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight - Original Message - From: "Sarah Goslee" To: ldec...@comcast.net Cc: "r-sig-geo" Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:19:53 PM

Re: [R-sig-Geo] where's spatstat?

2013-11-27 Thread ldecola
i would not think the version would have anything to do with the packages available on the sites...anyway, here's what's reported at startup: R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) -- "Good Sport" Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64

Re: [R-sig-Geo] where's spatstat?

2013-11-27 Thread ldecola
i install packages on my windows7 pc by clicking packages > install and then i select a mirror site, which brings up a list of 100s of packages in alpha order, including SpatioTemporal followed by spBayes. Lee De Cola. - Original Message - From: "Sarah Goslee" To: ldec...@comcast.net

[R-sig-Geo] where's spatstat?

2013-11-27 Thread ldecola
i don't see it among available packages to install... Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 703 709 6972 571 315 0577 mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo

[R-sig-Geo] grid overlay on polylines

2013-11-25 Thread ldecola
i'm trying to overlay a grid on a SpatialLines object but over() doesn't work, even if i load rgeos... library(sp) library(rgeos) # SPATIAL LINES OBJECT tmp_sl <- SpatialLines( list( Lines( list( Line(matrix(c(0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1), 3)) ), ID = 'a' ) ) ) plot(tmp_sl, axes = T

[R-sig-Geo] graph theory

2011-04-09 Thread ldecola
I'm teaching a GIS data structures using sp and I'd like to give a class on basic graphs. Does anyone have any experience with the various R packages in this area - what I have found so far: diagram Functions for visualising simple graphs (networks), plotting flow diagrams GrapheR A multiplat

[R-sig-Geo] rendering jpg in color

2011-03-01 Thread ldecola
how can i use the 3 bands from the result of readGDAL('picture.jpg') to render a color image? i guess i need to know how RGB2PCT() works. Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile 703 709 6972 home & fax [[alternative HTML v

Re: [R-sig-Geo] tutorial for sp?

2011-02-22 Thread ldecola
during the past month i've built a page for my students that has links to other documents as well as code i've revised to teach sp: http://ldecola.net/edu/vt/asdar.html Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile 703 709 6972 home & fax

Re: [R-sig-Geo] combining different plot types

2011-02-20 Thread ldecola
Christoph, your question is rather general...specifically WHICH kinds of graphics did you wish to combine? Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile 703 709 6972 home & fax - Original Message - From: "Christoph Mülligann"

Re: [R-sig-Geo] how to do a principle component analysis with geo-referenced points

2011-02-14 Thread ldecola
look at help for prcomp() to find the correct spelling of this technique. - Original Message - From: "piero campa" To: r-sig-...@stat.math.ethz.ch Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:23:47 AM Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] how to do a principle component analysis with geo-referenced points

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Question for point pattern experts

2011-02-11 Thread ldecola
first, i agree with the responses that this isn't a point pattern, but i'm also concerned about your investigating any kind of process that would apply to such a HUGE region over such a LONG period of time. lots of descriptive work should be done first, and most attractively with a nice-lookin

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Plot Histogram with axes inverted

2011-02-01 Thread ldecola
i'd suggest using table() to generate the frequencies then displaying as a barplot(..., horiz = T) . Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile 703 709 6972 home & fax - Original Message - From: "Jaime Burbano Girón" To: "r

Re: [R-sig-Geo] How to Identify the best subdataset of a dataset of points which follow a canonical distribution ?

2011-01-25 Thread ldecola
i would think topography and other climatic variables would be at least as important as spatial statistical factors! Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile 703 709 6972 home & fax - Original Message - From: "nikos" To: r

Re: [R-sig-Geo] from gps-coordinates to euclidean coordinates

2011-01-16 Thread ldecola
i just use R to compute NORTH in terms of 10^7 meters/degree and EAST as the same factor multiplied by cos(mean latitude). you can select the a 'pretty' version of min(LON, LAT) for your (0, 0). Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile

[R-sig-Geo] tutorial for sp?

2011-01-11 Thread ldecola
i'm teaching a course on geospatial data structures that will in part be using the sp package. does anyone know of a tutorial that introduces the fundamentals? Lee De Cola, PhD, MCP. DATA to Insight ldec...@comcast.net Reston, Virginia 571 315 0577 mobile 703 709 6972 home & fax