[R-sig-Geo] spatial clusters

[Roger Bivand]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Roman Luštrik wrote:

> Perhaps you could follow the instructions from this
> exchange<http://r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/Guam-island-map-td4969467.html#a4972725>and
> see if you can extract the desired country (assuming the resolution
> suits you).
>

I don't think that we know which countries Dorina needs, or at which 
administrative level. If there are only 30 country observations, and the 
countries are not contiguous, then the whole exercise seems unnecessary. 
Can Dorina use the simplified world map in the maptools package:

library(maptools)
?wrld_simpl

adding the data using the ISO country names? If these are countries at 
some administrative division level, then maybe www.gadm.org will have what 
is needed, but the countries will have to be joined together, or the whole 
map subsetted. If these are say EU NUTS2 regions, then use can be made of 
GISCO shapefiles from Eurostat. But we don't know what boundaries are 
needed, and of course to use Skater for clustering, you need the 
boundaries.

Roger

>
> Cheers,
> Roman
>
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Dorina Lazar <drnlazar at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Georg,
>>
>> Thanks for being very patient with me.
>>
>> I have not a shapefile for countries.
>>
>> I have tried to obtain it. I have loaded a shapefile for Finland, GIS data,
>> from
>> http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-reference-grids/zipped-shape-file-finland
>>
>> and I tried to read the file FI_1K.shp
>> Fin<- readShapePoly(system.file("etc/shapes/ FI_1K.shp", package="spdep"))
>> but...
>> Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : Error opening SHP file
>>
>> How can I obtain, for each country,  the shapefile spatial polygon in R
>> (SpatialPolygons-DataFrame)?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Dorina
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 12/16/10, Georg Ru? <research at georgruss.de> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Georg Ru? <research at georgruss.de>
>>> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] spatial clusters
>>> To: "Dorina Lazar" <dorina.lazar at econ.ubbcluj.ro>
>>> Cc: "R-sig-geo mailing list" <r-sig-geo at r-project.org>
>>> Date: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 10:41 AM
>>> On 16/12/10 09:06:33, dorina.lazar
>>> wrote:
>>>> How to create a shapefile including my data about some
>>> socio-demographic
>>>> indicators (7),  for about 30 countries around
>>> the world (to be read with
>>>> readShapePoly)?
>>>
>>> Hi Dorina,
>>>
>>> I'm not quite sure what you have and what you want.
>>>
>>> I assume that you'd like to create a shapefile such that
>>> for every country
>>> (which is represented as a polygon) there's a vector of
>>> seven attributes
>>> attached to it:
>>>
>>> country1:  attr1 attr2 attr3 attr4 attr5 attr6 attr7
>>> country2:  attr1 attr2 attr3 attr4 attr5 attr6 attr7
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Do you have your countries as spatial polygons in R
>>> (SpatialPolygons-
>>> DataFrame or similar)? If yes, you should be able to add
>>> your socio-demo-
>>> graphic indicators to this data frame (just as in normal
>>> data frames). In
>>> this way you'd join the data you have inside R.
>>>
>>> If you have the shapefile for the countries available and
>>> would like to
>>> edit this directly to add the indicators, I'd suggest using
>>> a GIS like
>>> GRASS http://grass.fbk.eu/ Afterwards, this can be easily
>>> read into R.
>>>
>>>> Would be useful to suggest some good introductory
>>> lectures in spatial
>>>> statistics (links or books).
>>>
>>> I think the following is what Roger would suggest:
>>>
>>>  author = {Bivand, Roger S. and Pebesma, Edzer J. and
>>> G?mez-Rubio, Virgilio},
>>>  title = {Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R},
>>>  series = {Use R},
>>>  publisher = {Springer},
>>>
>>> http://www.asdar-book.org/
>>> http://www.springerlink.com/content/uw07v1/
>>> (Depending on your login/institute you may have fulltext
>>> access, but the
>>> book is definitely worth buying anyway.)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Georg.
>>> --
>>> Research Assistant
>>> Otto-von-Guericke-Universit?t Magdeburg
>>> research at georgruss.de
>>> http://research.georgruss.de
>>>
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Roger Bivand
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