[R-sig-Geo] [FORGED] Re: using spatialpolygonsdataframe in ppm (or, converting spatialpolygonsdataframe to pixel image or other object useful in ppm)

[Rolf Turner]

On 02/09/17 19:00, Michael Sumner wrote:

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> It's not clear to me if you need polygons in spatstat or a raster owin
> version of them - admittedly spatstat does allow a combination of the two,

That's not actually true.  The spatstat package allows for observation 
windows (objects of class "owin" which are either polygonal (of type 
"polygonal") *or* "raster-like" (of type "mask"), consisting of a 
pixellation of the bounding box with the pixels having the values TRUE 
or FALSE.  There is also type "rectangle" which is conceptually a 
special case of "polygonal" but has (obviously?) practical advantages 
when it is applicable.

However an "owin" object *cannot* be a combination of polygonal and mask 
types.

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cheers,

Rolf Turner

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