[R-sig-Geo] write.sn2gwt and lost region.id

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2009, pota0011 at umn.edu wrote:

> Hi,
> I wanted to confirm that there is still no straightforward way to pass 
> region.id values to a GWT file when using write.sn2gwt, as this post from two 
> years ago suggests:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg02209.html
>
> GeoDa needs the particular region.id values to, for example, make histograms 
> from weight files. It seems that these are passed fine for GAL files with 
> write.nb.gal, but not GWT files. Does anyone know of a work-around?

I'll try to implement this - which version of GeoDa and/or OpenGeoDa are 
you using? I think the revision works for classic GeoDa, but OpenGeoDa 
cannot open GWT files that it itself has created when the IDs are not 1, 
..., N.

Best wishes,

Roger

>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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