Re: [R-sig-Geo] create inset map

2011-10-16 Thread Christopher S. Fowler
I struggled with a similar issue plotting the U.S. with Hawaii and Alaska as insets. My result is far from perfect and my coding technique is likely awful, but it might provide some inspiration... http://csfowler.com/drupal/US-with-inset On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Edzer Pebesma

[R-sig-Geo] errors in installing HDF5 package under windows

2011-10-16 Thread zhijie zhang
Dear all, The HDF5 binary package is not available now, so i download the source package and unzip it. When i check it before building the package, some errors appeared, see below. I donot think it's related with the R and HDF5 versions. I guess i missed something here. --Errors-- * installing

[R-sig-Geo] IDW example

2011-10-16 Thread Hodgess, Erin
Dear R Sig Geo People: Here is probably a dumb question, so please forgive me in advance (or swear, whatever is most appropriate): could someone recommend a good reference on IDW that has a numeric example, please? I like to work things out on a small scale to see how they work. thanks, Erin

[R-sig-Geo] Creating big raster from small tiles

2011-10-16 Thread steven mosher
I have 72 tiles in a tif format and each tile is 30X30 tile class : RasterLayer dimensions : 3600, 3600, 1296 (nrow, ncol, ncell) resolution : 0.00833, 0.00833 (x, y) extent : 60, 90, 60, 90 (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax) coord. ref. : NA values : C:/Users/steve/

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Creating big raster from small tiles

2011-10-16 Thread steven mosher
unionExtent() looks like the best approach. On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:54 PM, steven mosher mosherste...@gmail.com wrote:  I have 72 tiles in a tif format and each tile is   30X30 tile class       : RasterLayer dimensions  : 3600, 3600, 1296  (nrow, ncol, ncell) resolution  :

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Creating big raster from small tiles

2011-10-16 Thread Robert J. Hijmans
Steven, In principle you could give merge all tiles (e.g. make a list of RasterLayer objects and use do.call ) but merge is quite slow (something that can easily be be improved; and I expect it will be over the coming months). What I would do is use run gdalbuildvrt (that comes with the