[R] ppinit

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 SuzieBlatt at netscape.net wrote:

> 
> Probably a simple question, but I can't find the answer to it ... In the
> 'ppinit' code it describes how it takes a 'file in standard format' and
> creates a point process object with it.  Can anyone enlighten me as to
> what this 'standard format' is?  The example given doesn't allow me to
> view the '.dat' file that apparently is in this format. Thanks, Suzie

The ppinit() function is in the spatial package, for which the book:  
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) _Modern Applied Statistics with
S._ Fourth edition.  Springer, is the documentation. There (p. 433) you 
see that the function reads point coordinates in 2D, and the bounding 
coordinates of a rectangular domain. 

If you just enter the function name at the prompt, you'll see its code,
from which the rest follows, that is you get a list with x and y
components, and the definition of the rectangle. In addition ppinit()
calls ppregion() to set the domain for analysis.

If you'd like to look at an example:

file.show(system.file("ppdata", "towns.dat", package = "spatial"))

will show you the file provided with the package.

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