Re: [R-sig-Geo] kriging [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-07-07 Thread Jin.Li
Tom, Thanks for your kind support and information again. Yes we have a similar structure as you did, although with slightly different names, i.e. Non-geostatistical interpolators, Geostatistical interpolators and Combined procedures. Your classification seems valuable to me. Could I please have a

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread Dylan Beaudette
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Paulo Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can R perform matrix algebra between ascii converted Esri grids? I'm > convinced that its trivial. > > > > The question is a little more complex (from my point of view and > inexperience): I'm interested in perform cost surf

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Interpolating Count Data?

2008-07-07 Thread Edzer Pebesma
I think that if the counts are representative for a spatial support (area) or temporal support that does not vary, then you can consider the counts as an unscaled density and can interpolate. If they are representative for varying spatial/temporal support, I would avoid it, and first work towar

[R-sig-Geo] Interpolating Count Data?

2008-07-07 Thread Hollister . Jeff
All, I am reviewing some research in which a number of interpolations (Inverse Distance Weighting) were done on Species Abundance and Taxa Richness. My gut and my memory suggest that interpolating count data is not acceptable. After several hours of research I couldn't confirm this. My questio

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread milton ruser
Ola Paulo, Up to I know, there isnĀ“t a packages that do the job you want (cost surface) on R. But I think that SAGA do this. So, one solution is you get the introdutory material on SAGA and after use RSAGA package to communicate between the softwares. I also have interest on this issue. Please, g

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread Paulo Cardoso
Thanks Mike. I know rgdal package (you introduce it to me!) but I used it occasionally. One question remains since I want to consider an array of options to get cost distance surfaces (e.g. Varying the cost of each habitat). I've being playing around with calling other programs from R and change

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Paulo, Please note that there is also an as(d[1], "matrix") but that it returns the matrix in a different organization. Please find out which one suits you best; the help of ?image has all information how image assumes image matrices to be organized, and thus how as.image.Spatial... converts

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Sumner
Hi Paulo, You can read ESRI ASCII grids (amongst many others) using rgdal package: library(rgdal) d <- readGDAL("file1.asc") See gdalDrivers() for a listing of the available file formats for your package build. The read above would result in a single-colum SpatialGridDataFrame - named "band

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread Hisaji ONO
Hi. R seems to be able to deal with your desired processes. However, your had better use GRASS GIS or SAGA both of which support map algebra or cartographic modelling, import ascii grid and has interface packages(spgrass or RSAGA) to R for more complicated analyses if required. Regards. ---

[R-sig-Geo] Spatial analysis - matrix algebra

2008-07-07 Thread Paulo Cardoso
Can R perform matrix algebra between ascii converted Esri grids? I'm convinced that its trivial. The question is a little more complex (from my point of view and inexperience): I'm interested in perform cost surface and distance surface analysis avoiding ArcGIS tools. Maybe R can deal with grid

Re: [R-sig-Geo] kriging [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-07-07 Thread Hengl, T.
Jin, Do not get me wrong. I support your effort and it would be fairly useful to have a list of references for various spatial prediction techniques. I only think that you should first develop a hierarchical/nested classification of techniques, and then mention 'sub-species' (listing all possi