Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps

2010-10-05 Thread Tomislav Hengl
Hi Basile, If you work with large data, then you should definitively consider using SAGA GIS. Here are some examples: -- # download gridded data: download.file(http://geomorphometry.org/sites/default/files/volcano_maungawhau.zip;, destfile=paste(getwd(),

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps (Mathieu Basille)

2010-10-03 Thread Arnaud Mosnier
Hi Mathieu, An easy workaround could be to convert each segment to a polygon doing a very small buffer around each segment then use the overlay method to obtain info in each of these polygon. Arnaud [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps (Mathieu Basille)

2010-10-03 Thread Mathieu Basille
Dear Arnaud, This is actually on my todo list, a test with the polygon approach, although I'm not sure how to start to polygonize the segments... But in the end, that would allow a performance comparison with different approaches (and that would also allow the calculation of the

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps (Mathieu Basille)

2010-10-03 Thread Edzer Pebesma
I don't know. I can't reproduce your example, and a simple example on the meuse data set: library(sp) library(fields) data(meuse) Tps(data.frame(meuse$x,meuse$y), meuse$zinc) seemed to work. You could provide a reproducable example, or you could contact the author(s) of the fields package, I

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps (Mathieu Basille)

2010-10-03 Thread Clément Calenge
Or, if you want to use this approach for your problem (transforming a line into a polygon and then rasterize), a solution would be to use the function buffer from the package adehabitatMA (on RForge), which calculates a buffer from a SpatialLines. Best regards, Clément. On 10/03/2010 05:59

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps

2010-10-02 Thread Robert J. Hijmans
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Mathieu Basille basi...@ase-research.org wrote: Dear Robert, I just understood the interest of 'crosstab' with 'mask', this is pretty neat! Thanks for the suggestion. However, I can see some potential drawbacks with this approach: as my objective is to

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps

2010-10-02 Thread Mathieu Basille
Dear Robert, This is amazing! Exactly what I needed :) I really want to thank you for this addition. So far, I managed to make it work on a rather limited example (3 segments...): r - raster(nrow=18, ncol=9) r[] - rep(c(1, 2, 3, 4), c(40, 41, 40, 41)) cds1 - rbind(c(-50,0), c(0,60)) cds2 -

[R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Basille
Dear list members, I'm trying to compute characteristics along steps (i.e. segments between two points), based on underlying raster maps. The steps originally come from radiotracking data, converted to ltraj objects (adehabitat). The idea is to compute (for example) the habitat composition

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Step characteristics on raster maps

2010-09-30 Thread Mathieu Basille
Dear Robert, I just understood the interest of 'crosstab' with 'mask', this is pretty neat! Thanks for the suggestion. However, I can see some potential drawbacks with this approach: as my objective is to describe each step (each segment), I should first cut each 'SpatialLines' into a list of