[R-sig-Geo] kriging -- grass -- asciigrid

Jose Funes jefunes at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 23:13:18 CET 2008


Rogers,

It worked great, the function writeAsciiGrid() from maptools. My goal
was to export it as Arc ASCII file.

Thanks,

Jose

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Jose Funes wrote:
>
>  > Dear members,
>  >
>  > I have tried to export a kriging map to arcgis as asciigrid or image.
>  > I have used the functions write.asciigrid and writeRast6sp(grass), in
>  > both cases any success; In the former when exporting it, I got the
>  > following message " Asciigrid does not support grids with non-square
>  > cells".
>
>  Please quote your exact code. The function writeAsciiGrid() in maptools
>  will probably work, while write.asciigrid() in sp (which we ought to
>  deprecate, pointing to maptools) does not. The problem is machine fuzz,
>  the 90.0 values probably differ by 1e-16 or some other small amount -
>  writeAsciiGrid() tests and corrects for the fuzz.
>
>
>  > I checked for the krige map topology characteristics using the
>  > following code:
>  > getGridTopology(lidekri)
>  >
>  > Apparently cell size looks fine: see below
>  >
>  >                         s1       s2
>  > cellcentre.offset -363565.9 175563.0
>  > cellsize               90.0     90.0
>  > cells.dim             804.0   1236.0
>  >
>  > For the writeRast6sp function from "spgrass6" library
>  >
>  > writeRast6sp(lidekri,"lidekri",zcol="var1.pred",NODATA=-9999),
>  >
>
>  Was your goal to write an Arc ASCII grid as a file, or to write the data
>  to GRASS?
>
>  Did you try writeRAST6() in spgrass6, which uses other file formats?
>
>  Did you try the Arc ASCII grid driver "AAIGrid" with writeGDAL() in rgdal?
>
>  Hope this helps,
>
>  Roger
>
>
>
>  > I got the following message error
>  >
>  > "Error in system(paste(paste("g.tempfile", .addexe(), sep = ""),
>  > "pid=",  :  g.tempfilepid=421 not found"
>  >
>  > I will greatly appreciate any suggestions to get around this technical problem.
>  >
>  > Sincerely,
>  >
>  > Jose Funes
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:00 AM,  <r-sig-geo-request at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
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>  >>    1. estimates for paths of travel given two time series,      drawn
>  >>       from two corresponding spatial densities (Galkowski, Jan)
>  >>    2. makeGrid(PBSmapping) (Markus Loecher)
>  >>    3. Choice of Spatial weights (stefan lhachimi)
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>  >>  Message: 1
>  >>  Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:58:49 -0500
>  >>  From: "Galkowski, Jan" <jgalkows at akamai.com>
>  >>  Subject: [R-sig-Geo] estimates for paths of travel given two time
>  >>         series, drawn from two corresponding spatial densities
>  >>  To: <r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch>
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>  >>  This is less an R question and more a request to the community for
>  >>  literature references and the like.
>  >>
>  >>  I'm interested in the following inferential question.  What's the max
>  >>  likelihood estimate for a path of travel of a point across a plane
>  >>  having stable, smooth densities of two separate variables given two time
>  >>  series of their values at the point as it moves?   Suppose all that's
>  >>  available is the ratio of the variables?
>  >>
>  >>  This is motivated by problems of inferring movement of biological
>  >>  specimens between nesting and migratory regions, or the problem of
>  >>  recovery of travel given the technique described here:
>  >>
>  >>     http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/105/8/2788
>  >>
>  >>  Despite that, are there R packages which might help this?  I ask because
>  >>  I often find real gems buried within many R packages, gems which aren't
>  >>  obviously related to their primary subject.
>  >>
>  >>  Thanks much.
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>  >>
>  >>  Message: 2
>  >>  Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:00:28 -0500
>  >>  From: Markus Loecher <loecher at eden.rutgers.edu>
>  >>  Subject: [R-sig-Geo] makeGrid(PBSmapping)
>  >>  To: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
>  >>  Message-ID: <20080228195805.F18A632408E at annwn13.rutgers.edu>
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>  >>
>  >>  Dear geo experts,
>  >>  I am clearly misunderstanding the role of the projection argument in
>  >>  the wonderful utility makeGrid(PBSmapping).
>  >>  I had hoped that by setting projection ="LL" the resulting grid would
>  >>  be equidistant in "real" space, and hence curvilinear in lat/lon space.
>  >>  But the following code yields the identical, regular grid,
>  >>  irrespective of the projection argument:
>  >>
>  >>         mypolys <- makeGrid(x= seq(-123,-122,length=10), y = seq(33, 34,
>  >>  length=10), byrow = FALSE, addSID = TRUE, projection = "LL")
>  >>         plotMap(mypolys)
>  >>         mypolys <- makeGrid(x= seq(-123,-122,length=10), y = seq(33, 34,
>  >>  length=10), byrow = FALSE, addSID = TRUE, projection = 1)
>  >>         plotMap(mypolys)
>  >>
>  >>  Is there an easy way to create a rectangular grid in lat/lon space ?
>  >>  Should I first translate the points to UTM coordinates ?
>  >>
>  >>  Thanks!
>  >>
>  >>  Markus
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  ------------------------------
>  >>
>  >>  Message: 3
>  >>  Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:36:18 +0100
>  >>  From: "stefan lhachimi" <stefan.duke at gmail.com>
>  >>  Subject: [R-sig-Geo] Choice of Spatial weights
>  >>  To: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
>  >>  Message-ID:
>  >>         <a211af3b0802290236m53a12cd1h806a3106f508fb54 at mail.gmail.com>
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>  >>
>  >>  Dear all,
>  >>
>  >>  as a matter of curiosity does anybody know literature which discusses
>  >>  what spatial weight to choose (e.g. k-nn, single or double
>  >>  contiguity)? Or has anybod a good rule of thumb?
>  >>  I found an article which proposes to try several specification and
>  >>  take either the one with the highest lambda  or the one with the best
>  >>  overall model fit (in a regression). But I think that is statistically
>  >>  speaking that is not very satisfactory, in particular if the
>  >>  application does not give any indication what weight to use.
>  >>
>  >>  Any hints?
>  >>  Best,
>  >>  Stefan
>  >>
>  >>
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