[R-sig-Geo] Prepping data for FlexScan

[Barry Rowlingson]

FlexScan seems to be distributed as a closed-source Windows-binary
only piece of software:

https://sites.google.com/site/flexscansoftware/home

which raises lots of "avoid at all costs" red flags for me.

The methodology is published and could be re-implemented as an R
package by a smart enough programmer... Are we too late for a Google
SoC project?

Barry


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> Please provide a link to the documentation of what FlexScan expects to read
> and possibly your script, output file, and a sample correctly formatted
> file; it appears it is not actively used here (at this time of year anyway).
> Is this a case where the OS line feed/carriage return may make a difference?
>
> Roger
>
> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Paul Lantos wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to prepare data for FlexScan to use the flexible cluster scan
>> statistic, and I'm having difficulty getting data in the right format.
>>
>>
>> The problem seems to be in the creation of a neighbor matrix file. I've
>> been using a point data source, creating thiessen polygons (in ArcGIS), then
>> exporting as a shapefile to R where in spdep I create an nb object using
>> poly2nb. I've then exported it using the nb2inla function.
>>
>>
>> But FlexScan does not seem to like the neighbor matrix file I've created,
>> it gives me a generic error.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
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>>    Hospital Medicine
>> Depts of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
>> Duke University Medical Center
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