Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-27 Thread elw
The idea is that you're modeling an irregular shaped object, a body of water, a river or estuary, say. It's fairly common practice to use a grid squished and rotated so that the main flow is along one axis, and the other axis spans the flow in most spots. So there is a single

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-27 Thread tom sgouros
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ask on R-sig-geo? I haven't seen a query from you come through over there... and that would be the logical place to ask questions about the sp package and similar bits... No query from me over there because I managed to overlook it. Many thanks. -tom --

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-27 Thread hadley wickham
On 9/26/07, tom sgouros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be able to do this with the ggplot2 package - see for example http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/coord_map.html, which shows plots on map coordinate systems. Because the design of ggplot2 means the

[R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Sgouros
Hello all: A question from a new user. I have data on a geo-referenced curvilinear grid. This is a grid with 75 rows and 51 columns, is not aligned north-south, and the rows and columns are not straight. (And the coordinates are in meters.) I want to make image plots of this data, but where

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread hadley wickham
You might be able to do this with the ggplot2 package - see for example http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/coord_map.html, which shows plots on map coordinate systems. Because the design of ggplot2 means the coordinate system and geom (eg. points vs tiles) operate independently, you can draw image plots

Re: [R] curvilinear grid

2007-09-26 Thread tom sgouros
hadley wickham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might be able to do this with the ggplot2 package - see for example http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/coord_map.html, which shows plots on map coordinate systems. Because the design of ggplot2 means the coordinate system and geom (eg. points vs tiles)