[R-sig-Geo] Spatially Constrained Clustering

[Elias T. Krainski]

Hello Carson,

See the SKATER software at
http://www.est.ufmg.br/leste/skater.htm
The SKATER is a Spatial 'K'luster Analisys by Tree
Edge Removal. In future, this method also be available
in R.

Best,
Elias.

--- Carson Farmer <cfarmer at uvic.ca> escreveu:

> Hello List,
> 
> I am trying to find an R package that will
> accommodate spatially 
> constrained clustering.  While I have been unable to
> find a package that 
> is explicitly designed to do spatially constrained
> clustering, I was 
> wondering if anyone had found a package that would
> do constrained 
> clustering of any kind, and adapted this to spatial
> constraints?
> I have searched the R site extensively, and googled
> all night long, but 
> to no avail! I HAVE found this post:
>
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/56819.html
> but the replies did not help much.  They lead to
> several packages which 
> perform spatial clustering (such that significant
> clusters of say a 
> disease are located within a study region), however,
> what I would like 
> to do is partition a spatial (grid) dataset based on
> multiple variables, 
> taking into account their spatial locations (i.e.
> clustering is based on 
> the variables, but constrained so that clusters are
> spatially 
> contiguous).  I'm thinking mclust is probably the
> best way to go, but 
> I'm not sure where to start.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Carson
> 
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Elias T. Krainski