[R-sig-Geo] RE : Adjacency matrix of higher order (from winbugs to R)

Julien Beguin julien.beguin.1 at ulaval.ca
Mon Mar 8 18:35:52 CET 2010


Thank you Roger, problem resolved.

Julien
________________________________________
De : Roger Bivand [Roger.Bivand at nhh.no]
Date d'envoi : 5 mars 2010 09:06
À : Julien Beguin
Cc : r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
Objet : Re: [R-sig-Geo] Adjacency matrix of higher order (from winbugs to R)

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Julien Beguin wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to find a way to calculate an adjacency matrix from a polygon
> shapefile to make a CAR model in winbugs, but I would like to vary the order
> of neihborhood. I checked previous messages on the list but did not find
> this specific topic. I used the the spdep package to create an adjacency
> matrix (in list format) of order 2 and it works pretty fine:

Did you look at ?nblag - is that what you need?

Roger

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
>    shape <- readShapePoly("path_to_my_shapefile", IDvar="Id")
>    shape_nb<-poly2nb(shape)
>
>    data<-list(
>    N = length(shape_nb),
>    num=sapply(shape_nb, length),
>    adj=unlist(shape_nb),
>    lst = attr(shape_nb, "region.id"),
>    adj2 = lst[unlist(shape_nb)],
>    sumNumNeigh=length(unlist(shape_nb)
>    )
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------
> is everyone know how to calculate an adjacency matrix in R for polygon
> shapefile but for higher orders of neihborhood (ex: 3,4,5, etc...)? I did
> not see any option with the function poly2nb() in spdep package but I
> imagine that other tools have to exist. Your help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Julien
>
>

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