nb2lines {spdep}R Documentation

Use arc-type shapefiles for import and export of weights

Description

Use arc-type shapefiles for import and export of weights, storing spatial entity coordinates in the arcs, and the entity indices in the data frame.

Usage

nb2lines(nb, wts, coords)
listw2lines(listw, coords)
df2sn(df, i="i", i_ID="i_ID", j="j", wt="wt")

Arguments

nb a neighbour object of class nb
wts list of general weights corresponding to neighbours
coords matrix of region point coordinates
listw a listw object of spatial weights
df a data frame read from a shapefile, derived from the output of nb2lines
i character name of column in df with from entity index
i_ID character name of column in df with from entity region ID
j character name of column in df with to entity index
wt character name of column in df with weights

Details

The maptools package function write.linelistShape is used to transport out the list of lines made by nb2lines or listw2lines, which is a simple wrapper function. The neighbour and weights objects may be retrieved by converting the specified columns of the attribute data of the Map object into a spatial.neighbour object, which is then converted into a weights list object.

Value

nb2lines and listw2lines return a list of two objects, ll is a list of lines, and df is a data frame with the from and to indices of the neighbour links and their weights. df2sn converts the data retrieved from reading the data from df back into a spatial.neighbour object.

Note

Original idea due to Gidske Leknes Andersen, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Norway

Author(s)

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand@nhh.no

See Also

sn2listw, write.linelistShape

Examples

data(columbus)
res <- listw2lines(nb2listw(col.gal.nb), coords)
str(res$df)
fn <- paste(tempdir(), "nbshape", sep="/")
write.linelistShape(res$ll, res$df, file=fn)
inMap <- read.shape(fn)
str(inMap$att.data)
diffnb(sn2listw(df2sn(inMap$att.data))$neighbours, col.gal.nb)
identical(coords, unique(t(sapply(Map2lines(inMap), function(x) x[1,]))))

[Package spdep version 0.3-12 Index]