read.bnd {BayesX} | R Documentation |
Reads the geographical information provided in a file in boundary format (see Ch. 5 of the BayesX Reference Manual) and stores it in a map object.
read.bnd(file, sorted=FALSE)
file |
Name of the boundary file to be read. |
sorted |
Should the regions be ordered by the numbers speciying the region names (sorted=TRUE )? |
Returns a list of polygons that form the map. Additional attributes are
is.in |
Vector of regions that are completely contains in another region. |
contains |
Vector of regions containing the regions specified in argument is.in . |
height2width |
Ratio between height and width of the map. Allows customised drawing and storage in files by specifying the appropriate height and width. |
class |
Indicates whether the map is stored in boundary format (bnd ) or graph format (gra ). Maps returned by read.bnd are of class bnd |
Felix Heinzl, Thomas Kneib, Andreas Brezger
BayesX Reference Manual. Available from http://www.stat.uni-muenchen.de/~bayesx/
write.bnd
,drawmap
,read.gra
,write.gra
germany <- read.bnd(system.file("examples/germany.bnd", package="BayesX")) drawmap(map=germany) attributes(germany) germany <- read.bnd(system.file("examples/germany2001.bnd", package="BayesX")) drawmap(map=germany) attributes(germany)