Edzer, Many thanks for the fast and qualified reply.
Christoph Am 04.05.2010 um 19:33 schrieb Edzer Pebesma: > sp does not do points-to-line distances, but can do point-to-point > distances. In the second section I resampled the river boundary so we > get a closer approximation, because more points. Maybe rgeos can be > expanded do the real point-to-line things (R != GIS?). > > library(sp) > data(meuse.riv) > meuse.sr = > SpatialPolygons(list(Polygons(list(Polygon(meuse.riv)),"meuse.riv"))) > meuse.sp = as(as(meuse.sr, "SpatialLines"), "SpatialPoints") > > # create a grid: > grd = SpatialPixels(SpatialPoints(makegrid(meuse.sr))) > plot(meuse.sr) > grd = spsample(as(meuse.sr, "Spatial"), type='regular', n=10000) > points(coordinates(grd)) > d = spDists(grd, meuse.sp) > d0 = apply(d,1,function(x){x[x==min(x)][1]}) > g0 = SpatialPixelsDataFrame(as(grd, "SpatialPixels"), data.frame(d0=d0)) > spplot(g0, col.regions=bpy.colors()) > > # for finer discretized > meuse.sp = as(spsample(as(meuse.sr, "SpatialLines"),type="regular", > n=1000), "SpatialPoints") > d = spDists(grd, meuse.sp) > g0$d1 = apply(d,1,function(x){x[x==min(x)][1]}) > pplot(g0, col.regions=rev(bpy.colors())) > > Hope this helps, > -- > Edzer > > On 05/04/2010 09:39 AM, Christoph Hofer wrote: >> Dear list >> >> >> I would like to expand the covariate "dist" of the meuse.grid dataset, of >> the sp package, >> to the south-east direction. The value of the covariate dist is relative >> between [0,1]. >> Now, it is not clear for me how I shall calculate the distance between >> a new gird point and the river (is it the perpendicular between the river >> border and the grid point)? >> >> I appreciate for any tips or hints. >> >> >> >> Christoph >> >> >> >> >> >> ETH Zurich >> Christoph Hofer >> Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics >> Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems >> CHN E 50.2 >> Universitätstrasse 16 >> 8092 Zurich, Switzerland >> phone (+41) - (0)44 - 633 63 65 >> fax (+41) - (0)44 - 633 11 23 >> e-mail: christoph.ho...@env.ethz.ch >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-sig-Geo mailing list >> R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > -- > Edzer Pebesma > Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi), University of Münster > Weseler Straße 253, 48151 Münster, Germany. Phone: +49 251 > 8333081, Fax: +49 251 8339763 http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de > http://www.52north.org/geostatistics e.pebe...@wwu.de _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo