[R] spatial markov chain methods

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Tue Mar 3 21:31:26 CET 2009


On 4/03/2009, at 4:36 AM, Torsten Lange wrote:

> Hello,
>
> can any one point me to R-packages (if available) which include  
> spatial
> Markov Chain methods?
> My second question is more general but hopefully not OT: Currently we
> are using the software TPROGS, which let people simulate property
> distributions in space by some Markov Chain approaches. We face some
> problems due to the lack of information between distances of samples
> along borehole path and among boreholes. Is there any way to  
> "trick" it
> like for instants in variogram modeling were one might use nested
> variograms...?

The spatstat package has facilities for simulating (non-Poisson) spatial
point processes vi MCMC (Metropolis-Hastings) methods.  But it's  
probably
not point patterns that you're after.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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