[R] gridding values in a data frame

[dxc13]

Thank you for your input. I will give it a try and see how it works out.  I
always have the same problem when programming...I always make things more
complicated than they really are :-).
Much appreciated.


jdeisenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> dxc13 wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I have a data frame that looks like such:
>> LATITUDE   LONGITUDE   TEMPERATURE   TIME
>> 36.73         -176.43        58.32               1
>> 
>> and this goes on for a A LOT more records, until time=1200
>> 
>> I want to create a 5 degree by 5 degree grid of this data, with the value
>> of temperature in the appropriate grid cell.  I want one grid for each
>> time value.  
>> 
>> dxc13
>> 
> 
> The following appears to work, but is most definitely *not* in the "spirit
> of R" -- it's more like a C program written in R.  Undoubtedly someone
> will come up with a much more clever method. (This is always my problem; I
> come up with a workable solution, but it's not elegant.)
> 
> Note: the grid has to have 37 rows, since latitude -90 to +90 (inclusive)
> takes 37 5-degree increments; since -180 and +180 longitude are the same,
> you would never have them as separate numbers.
> 
> d <- read.csv("weather.csv")
> for (i in 1:1200)
> {
>     x <- d[d$TIME==i,]
>     if (length(x$TIME) > 0)
>     {
>         print(sprintf("# of elements for time %d:  %d", i,
>             length(x$TIME)))
>         grid <- matrix(NA, nrow=37, ncol=72)
>         for (j in 1:length(x$TIME))
>         {
>             lat <- 1 + trunc((90 + x$LATITUDE[j]) / 5)
>             long <-  1 + trunc((180 + x$LONGITUDE[j]) / 5)
>             grid[lat,long] <- x$TEMPERATURE[j]
>         }
>         write(t(grid), file=sprintf("time%d.csv", i), ncolumns=72,
> sep=",")
>     }
> }
> 
> 

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