[R-sig-Geo] memory limitations to markstat

Ian Robertson igr at stanford.edu
Fri Feb 1 05:15:27 CET 2008


Adrian, many thanks. A 'marktable' function, as you describe it, would 
do what I have been doing with the combination of markstat and 
table--but presumably on much larger sets of points. Sounds like a 
useful addition!

Cheers,

Ian Robertson

adrian at maths.uwa.edu.au wrote:
> If I understand correctly, you want to generate a large table in which the
> columns represent the points in the data pattern, the rows represent the
> possible mark values, and the entries are frequencies. Thus a column with
> entries 0, 2, 1, 0 means that there were 2 points with mark = 2 and 1
> point with mark=3 in the r-neighbourhood of the point in question.
>
> The nearest existing equivalent in spatstat is Kcross (at least this is
> the function that has to compute how many points of type j there are
> within an r-neighbourhood of each point).
>
> I will implement a function `marktable' that does what you want, and add
> it to the next version of spatstat (1.12-6) that should be released this
> weekend.
>
> regards
> Adrian Baddeley
>




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