[R] rgeos - gBuffer, width by z-value

[Michael Sumner]

Just use a loop and collect the results in a list. BTW, R-Sig-Geo is a
special interest group mailing list specifically for these sorts of
questions regarding sp and rgeos packages (which you did not mention).

library(sp)
library(rgeos)


point <- data.frame(x=c(10,20), y=c(10, 10), z = c(2,7))

point_shp <- SpatialPointsDataFrame(point[,1:2],point)

l <- vector("list", nrow(point_shp))
for (i in seq_len(nrow(point_shp))) {
	l[[i]] <- gBuffer(point_shp[i,], width = point_shp[i,]$z, byid=TRUE,
capStyle="ROUND")
}

plot(point_shp, xlim = bbox(point_shp)[1,] + c(-1, 1) *
max(point_shp$z), ylim = bbox(point_shp)[2,] + c(-1, 1) *
max(point_shp$z))
invisible(lapply(l, plot, add = TRUE))

Cheers, Mike.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Omphalodes Verna
<omphalodes.verna at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear list!
>
> I have problem with buffer size (width) in package rgeos. I would like to expand given geometry (points) to specified width based on the z value from attribute table. Here is example:
>
> point <- data.frame(x=c(10,20), y=c(10, 10), z = c(2,7))
>
> point_shp <- SpatialPointsDataFrame(point[,1:2],point)
>
> plot(point_shp, xlim = c(0,30), ylim = c(0,20))
> plot(gBuffer(point_shp, width = 5, byid=TRUE, capStyle="ROUND"), add = TRUE, col = "red")
> plot(gBuffer(point_shp, width = point_shp at data$z, byid=TRUE, capStyle="ROUND"), add = TRUE, col = "green")
>
>
> 'gBuffer' function ''take into account'' always only first line/cell from table. Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> OV
>
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Michael Sumner
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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