[R] moving-window (neighborhood) analysis

[Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann]

Hello all

I was wondering what would be the best way to do a moving-window
analysis of a matrix? By moving-window I mean that kind of analysis
common in GIS, where each pixel (matrix element) of the resulting map
is a function of it neighbors, and the neighborhood is a square
matrix.
I was hoping there was some function in R that could do that, where I
could define the size of the neighborhood, and then apply some
function to the values, some function I don't have in GIS packages
(like circular statistics).

thanks all.

Carlos


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