[R-sig-Geo] ext option for Raster's sampleRandom not working?

[Robert J. Hijmans]

Ned,
You are right, that does not work. I will fix it.
Robert

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Ned Horning <horning at amnh.org> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I am trying to run a script that calculates a common extent between two
> images than then uses that extent to restrict the random selection of cells
> from a raster using the sampleRandom function. For some reason it doesn't
> seem to be working although it used to work. It appears as if the "ext=TRUE"
> argument doesn't have an effect. The cells that are returned cover the
> entire image and are not restricted to the area defined by the "ext"
> variable.
>
> Another thing I notiiced is that when I use "xy=TRUE" along with
> "cells=TRUE" the resulting coordinates do not appear to match with the cell
> numbers. When I use "xyFromCell" to calculate the coordinates of the center
> of a cell returned from sampleRandom I get a good result but it is different
> form the coordinates for that same cell returned from sampleRandom.
>
> I checked the extent and it looks fine.
>
> Would someone be able to check if the extent feature in SampleRandom is
> working in the Raster package. If someone thinks of something I'm doing
> wrong please let me know.
>
> Here is the line of code I am using:
> sampleCells <- sampleRandom(predImage, size=numSamps, cells=TRUE,
> ext=commonExt)[,1]
>
> I'm using raster 2.1-25 with R 3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit
>
> Ned
>
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