Analysing spatial point patterns in R - CSIRO
Analysing spatial point patterns in R - CSIRO
Analysing spatial point patterns in R - CSIRO
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Chorley−Ribble Data<br />
For further discussion of these issues, see [3].<br />
30 Handl<strong>in</strong>g marked <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern data<br />
This section expla<strong>in</strong>s how to create a marked <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern dataset <strong>in</strong> spatstat, and how to<br />
manipulate it.<br />
30.1 Creat<strong>in</strong>g marked <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern datasets<br />
The marks attached to a <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern may be stored <strong>in</strong> a vector (with one entry for each<br />
<strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong>) or <strong>in</strong> a matrix or data frame (with one row for each <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> and one column for each mark<br />
variable). The mark values can be of any atomic type: numeric, <strong>in</strong>teger, character, factor, logical<br />
or complex.<br />
A marked <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern dataset can be created us<strong>in</strong>g any of the follow<strong>in</strong>g tools:<br />
ppp create <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern dataset<br />
as.ppp convert other data to <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern<br />
superimpose comb<strong>in</strong>e several <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> <strong>patterns</strong> <strong>in</strong>to a marked <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern<br />
marks extract marks from a <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern<br />
marks ppp(x, y, ..., marks = m)<br />
wherexand y are vectors of equal length conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the (x,y) coord<strong>in</strong>ates, m is either a vector of<br />
the same length as x conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the mark values for each <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong>, or a matrix or data frame with<br />
nrow(m) = length(x) conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the multivariate mark for each <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong>, and ... are arguments<br />
that determ<strong>in</strong>e the w<strong>in</strong>dow for the <strong>po<strong>in</strong>t</strong> pattern.<br />
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