similar to: R matching lat/lon pairs from two datasets?

Hello all, I am fairly new to R and I have created a function that I use quit frequently. I was wondering if there is away to save this function in an existing library so I can call it by using the function name once the library is loaded? Thanks, Doug -- --------------------------------- Douglas M. Hultstrand, MS Senior Hydrometeorologist Metstat, Inc. Windsor, Colorado voice:

Hi all, I use kriging to interpolate the precipitation from stations, but the map of this results show lots of stripes. (please see the attachment)I think there's something wrong with the setting of the dimension of this matrix, however, I have no idea how to know or test to see if this setting is correct or not.I've tried to switch the latitude and longitude, but still got the same

Hello, I am trying to create a data frame with a unique name, based on indexing of for loop. I was wondering if there is a way to do this, I keep running into errors when I try to do this. Below is a brief example, I am trying to get two data frames (name1 and name2). Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks, Doug # Example for (i in 1:2) { x=c(1,2,3,4) y=c(10,20,30,40)

Hello, I am creating a plot/image using different data and a couple fit lines (see attached image). In the legend, I want the Default and Exponential symbol to be a line. I am using the pch command, I tried to use "-" to represent a line but does not work so I currently have set as a "1". Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Below are the commands

Hello, I am trying to calculate the mean value of each row in a data frame (d), I am having troubles and getting errors using the code I have written. Below is a brief example of the code, any thought or suggestions would be great. Thank you for your time, Doug # Example Code: d <- data.frame(st1=c(1,2,3,4), st2=c(2,5,6,7), st3=c(5,5,NA,7), st4=c(6,5,7,8)) avg <-

Hello, I am trying to create subsets of grouped data (by area size), and use the area size as part of the output name. The code below works for area (xout) 1 and 50, the other files are given NA for an area. A simple example: xout <- c(1,5,10,25,50,100) for(i in xout) { print(paste("Areal_Ppt_",xout[i],"sqmi.txt", sep="")) } [1] "Areal_Ppt_1sqmi.txt"

Hello, I have a couple questions about removing rows from a data frame and creating a new data frame with the removed values. I provided an example data frame (d) below. Questions: 1) How can I search for "-999.000" and remove the entire row from data frame "d"? (all -999 values will be in sd_diff) 2) Can I create a new data frame "d.new" that only contains the

Hi lily, It's not too hard to do it using dataframes. Getting the indexing right is usually that hardest part: # these values are the centers of the black cells lat<-rep(28:38,11) lon<-rep(98:108,each=11) pop<-sample(80:200,121) # just use the data.frame function blackcells<-data.frame(lat=lat,lon=lon,pop=pop) plot(0,type="n",xlim=c(97.5,108.5),ylim=c(27.5,38.5),

Hello, I am creating plots of hourly precipitation and accumulated precipitation (on different axis, see attached image). I was wondering how can I have the plot frame (black border) start at zero, it looks like it is plotted less than zero? The code I use to create the png files is below: CairoPNG(PNG_file,width=1000, height=600, pointsize=14, bg="white") opar <-

Hello, I am trying to assign a variable name (x1,x2,x3...) in a loop statement that is based on a counter (counter is based on the number of hours within the datafile). The x1,x2 data will later be called for plotting the data. Below is a clip of the for loop I am using, any suggestions? k = 1 for (i in 1:length(stats$hour)) { "x(i)" = dataset[k,(3:15)] k = k+1 } Thanks,

Hello, I am generating .png images using the Cairo package in a for loop (looping on the number of zones, number of zones equals the number of plots to create based on different zone data). When I run the R script the .png files are created but they are all black? If I comment out the for loop and force my zones to equal one the png file is created correctly? Is there an issue with

Dear, I am trying to visualise a time-progressing line (it's supposed to represent spread patterns) using brew package and Google Earth. The idea is to have a function which takes start and end point geographic coordinates, as well as number of intervals to chop the path up, and returns the collection of points segmenting this line. Unfortunately my calculations fail for large distances,

Hello, I am trying to create data frame subsets based on binned temperature data. I have code working to create the bins (d.1 and d.2), but it takes two steps, I was wondering if I could merge into one step. See Below d n year mo da hr t td tw rh kPa 1 1 1945 3 1 0 1.1 0.0 0.6 92 101.7 2 2 1945 3 1 1 2.8 -1.1 1.1 76 101.8 3 3 1945 3 1 2 2.2 -1.7 0.6 75 101.9 4 4

Hi Jim, Thanks. It works. I now have more complex problems. If at each blackcell, there are two variables such as pop and mood. For each variable, there are daily records in one year, so 365 records for pop and 365 records for mood. The averaged values for the redcells should be daily records too. What kind of format do you recommend for this problem? Right now, I just get the latitudes and

Hello, I currently splitting a file into individual files (time series each separated into one file), the file I read in skips the first four lines and extracts the data columns I need. I was wondering if there is a way for R to automatically scan and separate the files based on the head information? The header delineates the observation with a 254 space time space day space month space

Hello, I am fairly new to R programming and am stuck with the following problem. I am trying to read in multiple files (see attached file or at end of email), the files all have the same general header information and different precipitation (avgppt) and area (areasqmi) values. Some times the number of records are different in the files. I want to read in all files (.stdsummary), and create

Dear R users, I need to find the coordinates for the point (midpoint) located half way between two pairs of coordinates (lon1,lat1 and lon2,lat2) assuming a straight line between them. What would be the best way? I tried to find an answer in the help archives but without success. I would greatly appreciate any help. df<- data.frame(lon1=c(-4.568,-4.3980), lat1=c(59.235,56.369),

Hello, I am using the lm to fit a linear model to data, I was wondering if there is a way to display the equation on a plot using the extracted lm coefficients? I am using the plot() function to create the plot/.png. Example: lm_mod <- lm(data1~data2) intercept = 48.54 slope = 0.4856 I want to display equation on a plot as y=0.4856x+48.54 Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

Hi, I have a set of locations defined by longitude and latitude (in degrees), and want to calculate the spatial (or geographic) distance among all locations. I did not find such a function in the spatial-related packages. (I *cannot* use 'dist', as I have geographic, not cartesian coordinates). thanks! Robert Robert Ptacnik Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) Gaustadall?en 21

Hello R-Group, I am new working with netcdf files and the raster package in R.I am trying to read in a netcdf file using the package "ncdf".I am able to get the lat, lon and parameter I need and can plot using fill.contour.Ultimately, I am trying to create a .asc file to reafd into GIS.I am using the package "raster" to read the parameter.When I read in with