[R-sig-Geo] raster::extract fails on brick but works on individual layers of brick

Lyndon Estes lyndon.estes at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 19:07:42 CEST 2014


Hi Frank,

I think the mean function is getting in the way, since if you want to
extra the values for all cells each polygon overlaps, the outputs will
first end up in a list.

test1 <- extract(g, dsd, weights = TRUE, small = TRUE)

Will get the cell values for each polygon from each layer in the
brick, along with their weight (while allowing very small polygons to
get their underlying cell values).

I would then process the mean function on the list.

v <- t(sapply(test1, function(x) apply(t(sapply(1:nrow(x), function(y)
x[y, 1:10] * x[y, 11])), 2, sum)))  # matrix of annual values per
polygon

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Lyndon


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Frank Davenport
<frank.davenport at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using extract() to aggregate values from a raster to a polygon. The
> raster is a brick object. Extract fails on the brick object but succeeds
> when applied on each individual layer of the brick (via a for() loop). I
> would use this as a work around but in my actual scenario the brick is much
> bigger and the individual approach is too slow.
>
> The specific error message is: "Error in t(sapply(res, meanfunc)) :  error
> in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function 't':
> Error in apply(x, 1, function(X) { : dim(X) must have a positive length"
>
> I believe this has something to do with the relative sizes of the polygons
> (small) and the grid cells. I have successfully extracted this brick to
> another shapefile that had much larger polygons. Likewise I can also do the
> extraction if I resample the cells to a smaller resolution (not shown
> below).
>
>
> Finally the extract will work if I set 'na.rm=F' but then produces mostly
> NA's, even though there are no NAs in the brick. I realize this might be
> something to do with the dataType(). However that does not explain why
> extract works on individual layers, but not the whole brick.
>
> Reproducible code is below and prettier example can be found here:
> http://rpubs.com/frank_davenport/22698
>
> The data necessary to run the example can be found here:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9577903/99_raster_bugreport.Rdata
>
> Thank you for your help and apologies if a solution is already posted.
>
> Frank
>
>> rm(list=ls())
>> library(raster)
> Loading required package: sp
>>
>> ##-Download data from here:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9577903/99_raster_bugreport.Rdata
>>
>> ##contains 'dsd' a spatial polygons data.frame and 'g' a raster brick
> with 10 layers
>> load('~/Dropbox/Public/99_raster_bugreport.Rdata')
>>
>> dsd
> class       : SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
> features    : 36
> extent      : 34.04665, 39.70319, -4.67742, 1.19921  (xmin, xmax, ymin,
> ymax)
> coord. ref. : +proj=longlat +a=6378249.145 +b=6356514.96582849 +no_defs
> variables   : 4
> names       : Province, District,         Division, uidu
> min values  :  CENTRAL,  BUNGOMA, ABOTHUGUCHI WEST,    1
> max values  :  WESTERN,   VIHIGA,            WINAM,   44
>> g
> class       : RasterBrick
> dimensions  : 24, 20, 480, 10  (nrow, ncol, ncell, nlayers)
> resolution  : 0.5, 0.5  (x, y)
> extent      : 33, 43, -6, 6  (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
> coord. ref. : +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0
> data source : in memory
> names       : X1999.03.01, X1999.03.02, X1999.03.03, X1999.03.04,
> X1999.03.05, X1999.03.06, X1999.03.07, X1999.03.08, X1999.03.09,
> X1999.03.10
> min values  :    22.47562,    22.44415,    22.25507,    22.23166,
> 22.12387,    22.42477,    22.27802,    22.15134,    22.36218,    22.33447
> max values  :    41.47818,    40.53116,    41.54944,    42.33093,
> 41.67810,    40.79260,    41.83319,    40.83359,    41.12604,    42.00555
>
>>
>> #---Show the data
>> plot(g[[1]])
>> plot(dsd,add=T)
>>
>> #--Try to extract, with weights yeilds an error
>> test1<-extract(g,dsd,fun=mean,na.rm=T,weights=T)
> Error in t(sapply(res, meanfunc)) :
>   error in evaluating the argument 'x' in selecting a method for function
> 't': Error in apply(x, 1, function(X) { : dim(X) must have a positive length
>>
>> #--Extract without weights--produces NA's for most polygons
>> test2<-extract(g,dsd,fun=mean,na.m=T)
>> head(test2)
>      X1999.03.01 X1999.03.02 X1999.03.03 X1999.03.04 X1999.03.05
> X1999.03.06 X1999.03.07 X1999.03.08 X1999.03.09 X1999.03.10
> [1,]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [2,]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [3,]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [4,]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [5,]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> [6,]          NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
> NA          NA          NA          NA          NA
>> summary(test2)
>   X1999.03.01     X1999.03.02     X1999.03.03     X1999.03.04
> X1999.03.05     X1999.03.06     X1999.03.07     X1999.03.08
>  Min.   :24.47   Min.   :25.21   Min.   :24.67   Min.   :25.47   Min.
> :27.42   Min.   :25.38   Min.   :25.93   Min.   :24.11
>  1st Qu.:29.29   1st Qu.:30.99   1st Qu.:29.55   1st Qu.:30.83   1st
> Qu.:31.58   1st Qu.:29.78   1st Qu.:29.51   1st Qu.:28.35
>  Median :30.31   Median :33.63   Median :31.13   Median :31.88   Median
> :33.32   Median :30.31   Median :30.52   Median :29.71
>  Mean   :29.87   Mean   :32.75   Mean   :30.41   Mean   :31.78   Mean
> :32.61   Mean   :29.71   Mean   :29.90   Mean   :29.19
>  3rd Qu.:31.86   3rd Qu.:36.08   3rd Qu.:32.59   3rd Qu.:34.37   3rd
> Qu.:34.73   3rd Qu.:30.60   3rd Qu.:31.32   3rd Qu.:30.82
>  Max.   :32.81   Max.   :37.00   Max.   :33.45   Max.   :35.77   Max.
> :35.42   Max.   :31.98   Max.   :31.69   Max.   :32.53
>  NA's   :30      NA's   :30      NA's   :30      NA's   :30      NA's
> :30      NA's   :30      NA's   :30      NA's   :30
>   X1999.03.09     X1999.03.10
>  Min.   :25.98   Min.   :25.53
>  1st Qu.:29.53   1st Qu.:30.73
>  Median :30.57   Median :31.06
>  Mean   :30.12   Mean   :31.24
>  3rd Qu.:31.41   3rd Qu.:33.52
>  Max.   :32.75   Max.   :34.83
>  NA's   :30      NA's   :30
>>
>> #--Extract each layer seperatley--works but is SLOW
>> glist<-vector(mode='list',length=nlayers(g))
>>
>> for(i in 1:length(glist)){
> +   glist[[i]]<-extract(g[[i]],dsd,fun=mean,na.rm=T,weigths=T)
> + }
>>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] raster_2.2-31 sp_1.0-15
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_3.1.0      lattice_0.20-29 tools_3.1.0
>>
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