Soon on CRAN a new version of package gstat will emerge, which has a few minor changes and possible incompatibilities w.r.t. the previous version(s). The new gstat (0.9-23) now: + depends on sp, and uses internally with Spatial* classes from sp if data are provided in the old-fashoned way (as data.frame) + has a vignette to get you started with the classes in sp + defines krige as a generic; two typical uses are: # "old-style", using data.frame's: library(gstat) data(meuse) data(meuse.grid) v = vgm(0.6, "Sph", 900, 0.1) # spherical variogram model zn.kri1 = krige(log(zinc)~1, ~x+y, meuse, meuse.grid, v) image(zn.kri1) # "new-style", using SpatialPointsDataFrame's: coordinates(meuse) = c("x", "y") # promote meuse to SpatialPointsDataFrame coordinates(meuse.grid) = c("x", "y") # promote to SpatialPointsDataFrame gridded(meuse.grid) = TRUE # promote to SpatialPixelsDataFrame zn.kri2 = krige(log(zinc)~1, meuse, meuse.grid, v) spplot(zn.kri2[1]) + provides a generic idw for inverse distance interpolation (calling sequence identical to krige) INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: the krige generic is krige(formula, locations, ...) based on the class of argument 2 (locations) either of the two versions (see above) is called. This means that no named argument "data" should be passed in case locations is missing (i.e., when data is of class SpatialPointsDataFrame). Instead, pass it as argument 2 or as named argument "locations". -- Edzer _______________________________________________ R-packages mailing list R-packages at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-packages