[R] getting data associated with coordinates in a spatial data frame

[R. Michael Weylandt]

It's going to depend how the coordinates are stored within the data
frame. Do you perhaps know if they are factors or character strings?
(I'm not familiar with the package). If you don't know, type
str(NAMEOFYOUROBJECT) and we can help interpret the output.

Untested, I think this would actually work for both though:
e[as.character(e$coordinates)=="(0,17)",]

Michael

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Bailey, Daniel <bailed at spu.edu> wrote:
> Thank you Sarah. I tried your suggestion, and if I coerce it into a normal data.frame, that method works. But if you've already made the data into a SpatialPixelsDataFrame and run coordinates (both from the package "sp") so that the columns "x" and "y" become a single column "coordinates" with the format (0, 17) for x and y, how do you then call or manipulate data at a specific location?
>
> The following:
> e[e$coordinates==(0,17),]
> Doesn't work.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:sarah.goslee at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:34 PM
> To: Bailey, Daniel
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] getting data associated with coordinates in a spatial data frame
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Bailey, Daniel <bailed at spu.edu> wrote:
>> If I know the specific coordinate in a spatial data frame, how can I access the data at that coordinate?
>>
>> My coordinates are labeled "x" and "y" in a data.frame "e". The data is in column "leachate".
>> I want to say, basically:
>> e$leachate at coordinates(2,3<mailto:e$leachate at coordinates(2,3>).
>
> That's kind of mangled, but what about:
>
> e[e$x == my.x & e$y == my.y, "leachate"]
>
> (Depending on the form of your coordinates, you may also have to invoke FAQ 7.31.)
>
> Sarah
>
>> Thanks, Daniel
>>
>
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