[R] How to create gridded data

lily li
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:50:12 -0000

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:56 PM David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu>
wrote:

> Sarah's answer is probably better depending on what you want to do with
> the resulting data, but here's a way to go from your original DF1 to
DF2:
>
> > DF1 <- structure(list(latitude = c(45.5, 45.5, 45.5, 45.5, 46, 46,
46,
> +         46), longitude = c(110.5, 111, 111.5, 112, 110.5, 111, 111.5,
> +         112), Precip = c(3.2, 5, 1.8, 2, 6.1, 4.5, 7.8, 5.5)),
> +         class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -8L))
> >
> # Convert to table with xtabs()
> > DF2 <- xtabs(Precip~latitude+longitude, DF1)
> >
>
> # Reverse the order of the latitudes
> > DF2 <- DF2[rev(rownames(DF2)), ]
> > DF2
>         longitude
> latitude 110.5 111 111.5 112
>     46     6.1 4.5   7.8 5.5
>     45.5   3.2 5.0   1.8 2.0
>
> # Convert to a data frame
> > DF2 <- as.data.frame.matrix(DF2)
> > DF2
>      110.5 111 111.5 112
> 46     6.1 4.5   7.8 5.5
> 45.5   3.2 5.0   1.8 2.0
>
> ----------------------------------------
> David L Carlson
> Department of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843-4352
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of Sarah
Goslee
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 8:16 AM
> To: lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com>
> Cc: r-help <r-help at r-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [R] How to create gridded data
>
> If you want an actual spatial dataset, the best place to ask is R-sig-geo
>
> R has substantial capabilities for dealing with gridded spatial data,
> including in the sp, raster, and sf packages.
>
> Here's one approach, creating a SpatialGridDataFrame, which can be
> exported in any standard raster format using the rgdal package.
>
> DF2 <- DF1
> coordinates(DF2) <- ~longitude + latitude
> gridded(DF2) <- TRUE
> fullgrid(DF2) <- TRUE
>
> I recommend Roger Bivand's excellent book:
> https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781461476177
>
> and there are abundant web tutorials.
>
> Sarah
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:22 AM lily li <chocold12 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > Hi R users,
> >
> > I have a question about manipulating data. For example, I have DF1 as
the
> > following, how to transform it to a gridded dataset DF2? In DF2, each
> value
> > Precip is an attribute of the corresponding grid cell. So DF2 is like
a
> > spatial surface, and can be imported to ArcGIS. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > DF1
> > latitude   longitude   Precip
> > 45.5           110.5         3.2
> > 45.5           111            5.0
> > 45.5           111.5         1.8
> > 45.5           112            2.0
> > 46              110.5         6.1
> > 46              111            4.5
> > 46              111.5         7.8
> > 46              112            5.5
> > ...
> >
> >
> > DF2
> > 6.1   4.5   7.8   5.5
> > 3.2   5.0   1.8   2.0
> > ...
> >
>
>
> --
> Sarah Goslee (she/her)
> http://www.numberwright.com
>
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