SObjects-class: The SObjects class and constructor function

In edzer/mss: Meaningful Spatial Statistics

Description

SObjects: a Class for Spatial Entities (Objects)

Usage

SObjects(observations, window)

Arguments

observations	object of one of the sublasses of Spatial
window	object of class SExtent or Spatial

Details

A class to store spatial entities, such as trees, buildings and so on, along with the observed window, the area for which the set of entities is exhaustive. It is assumed that for all points in the observed window where there are no objects, the space is known to be empty.

Value

object of class SObjects-class

Slots

observations

object of a subclass of Spatial

window

object of class SExtentOrNULL-class

Note

If no window is supplied, the window is set to the collection of features, and a warning is issued. Support is assumed to be that of the features (points, polygons, lines, grid cells) in the observations object.

Author(s)

Edzer Pebesma

See Also

SField

Examples

library(sp)
demo(meuse, ask = FALSE, echo = FALSE)
m = SObjects(meuse, meuse.area)

edzer/mss documentation built on May 15, 2019, 11:08 p.m.