[R-sig-Geo] Error creating GlobalSoilMap object (GSIF package)

[Pascal Oettli]

Hello,

According to the help file, TimeSpan is an "object of class "list";
contains begin and end of the sampling period of class "POSIXct"". You
need to provide a list of POSIXct dates, not a vector.

HTH
Pascal

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Ruth Gonzaga <gonzagarg at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I have been trying to follow this tutorial on 3D modelling of soil with the
> GSIF package:
> http://gsif.isric.org/doku.php?id=wiki:tutorial_eberg
>
> (code on:
> https://code.google.com/p/gsif/source/browse/trunk/eberg/tutorial_eberg.R)
>
> When I get to creating a GlobalSoilMap object (line 181):
>
> SNDMHT.gsm <- GlobalSoilMap(sd.ll, varname="SNDMHT", period=c("1999-02-01",
> "2001-07-01"))
>
> I get an error saying:
> Error in GlobalSoilMap(sd.ll, varname = "SNDMHT", period = c("1999-02-01",
> : unused argument (period = c("1999-02-01", "2001-07-01"))
>
> I think the tutorial is quite old. I checked the help and then replaced
> "period" for "TimeSpan". I now get the following error:
>  Error in initialize(value, ...) :
>   invalid name for slot of class "GlobalSoilMap": TimeSpan.begin
>
>
> Here is some information on this function:
>> GlobalSoilMap function (obj, varname, TimeSpan = list(begin = Sys.Date()
> - 1, end = Sys.Date())) { if (!class(obj) == "list") { stop("Object of
> class 'list' required") } out = new("GlobalSoilMap", varname = varname,
> TimeSpan.begin = TimeSpan, sd1 = as(obj[[1]], "SpatialPixelsDataFrame"),
> sd2 = as(obj[[2]], "SpatialPixelsDataFrame"), sd3 = as(obj[[3]],
> "SpatialPixelsDataFrame"), sd4 = as(obj[[4]], "SpatialPixelsDataFrame"),
> sd5 = as(obj[[5]], "SpatialPixelsDataFrame"), sd6 = as(obj[[6]],
> "SpatialPixelsDataFrame")) return(out)
> }
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks.
>
> Ruth
>
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Pascal Oettli
Project Scientist
JAMSTEC
Yokohama, Japan