getting data associated with coordinates in a spatial data frame

Michael,
Thank you for the tips. The suggestion didn't work though. Here is the output of str(e):
Formal class 'SpatialPointsDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 5 slots
?..@ data ? ? ? :'data.frame': 168 obs. of ?2 variables:
?.. ..$ catchcandata: num [1:168] 47.2 50.4 53.7 58 69.8 ...
?.. ..$ section ? ? : Factor w/ 1 level "16 Sept F9": 1 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
?..@ coords.nrs : int [1:2] 1 2
?..@ coords ? ? : num [1:168, 1:2] 0 0 0 0 0 ...
?.. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
?.. .. ..$ : NULL
?.. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "x" "y"
?..@ bbox ? ? ? : num [1:2, 1:2] 0 0 48.8 17.1
?.. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
?.. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "x" "y"
?.. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "min" "max"
?..@ proj4string:Formal class 'CRS' [package "sp"] with 1 slots
?.. .. ..@ projargs: chr NA

-----Original Message-----
From: R. Michael Weylandt [mailto:michael.weylandt at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:13 AM
To: Bailey, Daniel
Cc: Sarah Goslee; r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] getting data associated with coordinates in a spatial data frame

It's going to depend how the coordinates are stored within the data frame. Do you perhaps know if they are factors or character strings?
(I'm not familiar with the package). If you don't know, type
str(NAMEOFYOUROBJECT) and we can help interpret the output.

Untested, I think this would actually work for both though:
e[as.character(e$coordinates)=="(0,17)",]

Michael

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Bailey, Daniel <bailed at spu.edu> wrote:

Thank you Sarah. I tried your suggestion, and if I coerce it into a normal data.frame, that method works. But if you've already made the data into a SpatialPixelsDataFrame and run coordinates (both from the package "sp") so that the columns "x" and "y" become a single column "coordinates" with the format (0, 17) for x and y, how do you then call or manipulate data at a specific location?

The following:
e[e$coordinates==(0,17),]
Doesn't work.


-----Original Message-----
From: Sarah Goslee [mailto:sarah.goslee at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 5:34 PM
To: Bailey, Daniel
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] getting data associated with coordinates in a spatial
data frame

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Bailey, Daniel <bailed at spu.edu> wrote:

If I know the specific coordinate in a spatial data frame, how can I access the data at that coordinate?

My coordinates are labeled "x" and "y" in a data.frame "e". The data is in column "leachate".
I want to say, basically:
e$leachate at coordinates(2,3<mailto:e$leachate at coordinates(2,3>).

That's kind of mangled, but what about:

e[e$x == my.x & e$y == my.y, "leachate"]

(Depending on the form of your coordinates, you may also have to
invoke FAQ 7.31.)

Sarah

Thanks, Daniel

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