[R] matrix from sequences

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Miha:

1.  How do I get the GRASS library?  "library(GRASS)" produced "Error in 
library(GRASS) : There is no package called `GRASS'" for me from R 1.6.2 
for Windows.

2.  I assume there is a typographical error in the last line of your 
email:  If G$xseq and $yseq are coordinates of points, then 
length(G$xseq) == length(G$yseq)???  In that case, 
'as.matrix(G[,c("xseq", "yseq")])' should give you what you want.

Or am I missing something?
Best Wishes,
Spencer Graves

Miha STAUT wrote:
>> Miha STAUT wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have a data frame with sequences of x and y from a map. I would 
>>> like to know it both ways:
>>> 1. How to make a matrix from that;
>>> 2. how to make a data frame of all points in a map.
>>>
>>> Probably it is a silly question, but please tell me where to read 
>>> about it or tell me how to do it.
>>>
>>> Miha Staut
>>>
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>> Hi Miha,
>>
>> 1) What is the structure of your data.frame ? Assuming all 
>> co-ordinates are in the same column (one column for x and one column 
>> for y), the simplest way to extract them and turn them into a matrix 
>> would be:
>>
>> as.matrix(mydata[ , c("x", "y")])
>>
>> e.g.:
>>
>> R>mydata <- data.frame(x = rnorm(10), y = rnorm(10), z = rnorm(10))
>> R>mydata
>>              x           y          z
>> 1  -0.73735224 -0.51218243 -0.9602624
>> 2  -1.46079091 -0.63634091  1.4967066
>> 3  -0.28574919 -1.30719383 -0.2887403
>> 4   0.04137159  0.61711350 -0.7057102
>> 5   0.03179303  0.05734869 -0.4637660
>> 6  -0.06638058 -0.74565157  0.9239402
>> 7  -0.67611541 -1.01760810 -0.2854017
>> 8   0.34215052  0.30564550  0.6931193
>> 9   0.83597837  0.75443762 -2.3394679
>> 10 -0.14967073 -0.02027512 -0.1143414
>> R>as.matrix(mydata[ , c("x", "y")])
>>              x           y
>> 1  -0.73735224 -0.51218243
>> 2  -1.46079091 -0.63634091
>> 3  -0.28574919 -1.30719383
>> 4   0.04137159  0.61711350
>> 5   0.03179303  0.05734869
>> 6  -0.06638058 -0.74565157
>> 7  -0.67611541 -1.01760810
>> 8   0.34215052  0.30564550
>> 9   0.83597837  0.75443762
>> 10 -0.14967073 -0.02027512
>>
>>
>> 2) How are the points stored ? If in a matrix, say mat, with 2 columns 
>> for x and y, simply:
>>
>> as.data.frame(mat)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Renaud
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks to both of you (Dr Renaud Lancelot and James Holtman)
> 
> I see I formulated the question in a wrong way. I got from GRASS the 
> coordinates of a map. There is a package in R named GRASS to connect R 
> with GRASS.
> 
> library(GRASS)
> G<-gmeta() # copy the environment from GRASS
> 
> Now G is a data frame containig also $xseq and $yseq which would be the 
> coordinates of all the points in x and y direction. The final matrix 
> should have length(G$xseq) * length(G$yseq) points.
> 
> Miha Staut
> 
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