[R] Sorting values within a raster

[Sara Maxwell]

Hi David et al,
Thanks for your help.  I spent the afternoon and thought that would  
work but then I realized it was giving a different answer.

I have counts ('hits') in each grid cell, and have then calculated the  
proportion of the total hits represented in each cell (such that the  
sum of all cells = 1).   I want to take the cell with largest  
proportion, add the next largest proportion to it, etc until I reach  
10% of the TOTAL number of 'hits'.  Quantiles unfortunately are  
created using the total number of CELLS and not the total number of  
HITS, if that makes sense.

Any thoughts??

Many many thanks,
Sara
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Sara M. Maxwell, Ph.D.



On Apr 21, 2011, at 1:26 PM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Sara Maxwell wrote:
>
>> I am working with a raster and want to take values assigned to each  
>> cell and sort them from largest to smallest, then cummulatively sum  
>> them together (in order from largest to smallest).  I'll then be  
>> coding the individual cells such that the top 10% of the largest  
>> cell values can be visualize with one color, the next 10% with  
>> another and so on.
>>
>> I have tried a number of schemes but am having trouble figuring out  
>> how to chose the maximum value, code it and re-search the raster  
>> for the next highest value without replacement.  I am assuming this  
>> requires a loop, unless there is a function that will do this  
>> automatically.
>
> ?quantile
>
>>
>> Here is a sample dataset:
>>
>> library(raster)
>> r <- raster(ncol=10, nrow=10)
>> values(r) <- runif(ncell(r))
>
>
> > quantile(values(r), prob=seq(0,1,by=0.1))
>         0%         10%         20%         30%         40%
> 0.004888148 0.106378528 0.217009097 0.307201289 0.364990984
>        50%         60%         70%         80%         90%
> 0.512523817 0.593382875 0.667916094 0.722919876 0.835839832
>       100%
> 0.996683575
>
> You will also need findInterval()
>
> If you want to create a factor that will assign your colors. perhaps  
> this could be used to index a suitable color vector:
>
> fac <- findInterval(values(r), quantile(values(r),  
> prob=seq(0,1,by=0.1)) )
> > fac
>  [1]  6 10  1 10  7  7  8 10  2  9  9  1  6  2  9  1  9  4  2  2
> [21]  3  4  8  9  7  1  9  2 10  5  4  9  8  1  8 10  1 11  3  5
> [41]  5  6  6  5  6  7  4  7  5  3  8  6  3  4 10  4  7  7  8  9
> [61] 10  4  1  8  8  8  3  7  5  1  9  5  2  7  2 10  3  8  4  9
> [81]  6  6  2  6 10  5  5  4  3  6  2  2  1  3  3  3  4  7  1  5
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>