[R-sig-Geo] custom focal function on rasterstack

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Hi Ben:

In the short term, I don't have a plan to implement a mask in focal
the way I think you are asking -- it has to do with how data is read
from disk to realize the parallel processing -- all of the data HAS to
be read, and you HAVE to have a single output per pixel.  With this
said, the code allows you to implement a mask if need be (set it as a
second input raster). If you use processing_unit="chunk" with a focal
window, you can efficiently use a mask to "skip" those masked pixels
(when I mean skip, I mean your function performs a quick "return NA"
instead of "process all values in the window").

The processing_unit="chunk" for focal takes a bit of getting used to,
so you might want to investigate it with debugmode=TRUE.  Another
trick for learning this mode is to grab the latest spatial.tools from
R-forge (version 1.4.4 or later) is to create a "GLT" file (a 2-band
file where band 1 is the pixel x position (column) and band 2 is the
pixel y position (row)) using raster_to_GLT.  When you take a look at
the test chunk in the debugmode you will see how this an "unspooled"
set of focal windows looks.

--j

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:47 AM, ben mack <benjamin0mack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the spatial.tools is really a great thing to accellerate the raster
> processing. However, I have the same issue and often need to process only a
> part of the image and thus a mask option for the rasterEngine would also be
> great for me.
> I just wanted to also ask if this is considered an option in future versions
> (Jonathan?). Or did you, Ruben, or anybody else found a work around?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Ben
>
>
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