[R-sig-Geo] SpatialPoints, SpatialGrid and related terminology

2012-06-28 Thread Gabriele Cozzi
Dear list, apologize for the unusual question. I am new and I have some problems with some of the terminology. I had my codes running but only after trial and error rather than with a full understanding of what is what and this does not entirely satisfy me. I have a data frame (call it grid1) con

Re: [R-sig-Geo] SpatialPoints, SpatialGrid and related terminology

2012-06-28 Thread Tom Gottfried
Gabriele, it would be surely very useful for you to read the ASDAR-book: Bivand, Roger S., Edzer J. Pebesma, und Virgilio Gómez-Rubio. Applied spatial data analysis with R. Use R! New York: Springer, 2008. http://www.asdar-book.org/; http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-78170-9. Be

Re: [R-sig-Geo] SpatialPoints, SpatialGrid and related terminology

2012-07-03 Thread Giuseppe Calamita
Ciao Gabriele, you can find a shorter yet very useful descriptions of how spatial classes work in one of the vignettes of the sp-package. To visualize that, simply write on R terminal > vignette("intro_sp") this will open a pdf. You can also download it directly from http://cran.r-project.org/w