Help with the Kmeasure function from the Spatstat package

Hi,

El vie, 08-12-2006 a las 09:59 +0800, Adrian Baddeley escribi?:

Virgilio Gomez-Rubio writes:

 Diggle (2003), for example, describes what you ask and most of the
examples in the book can be reproduced using package Splancs. Check
manual page of function mse2d and references (in Splancs) as well.

I beg to disagree. The function 'Kmeasure' in spatstat does not have
a counterpart in any other R package, to my knowledge. 
The function mse2d (splancs) is not appropriate for selecting the
sigma parameter in Kmeasure. 

Yes, that is absolute true!!! I apologise, I realise now that what I
said was completely non-sense!! Sorry, I messed things up in my head (I
shall take more time to reply to e-mails next time).
I completely agree with Prof. Baddeley's advice.

In general terms, spatstat is by far the largest and most extensive R package
for analysing spatial point patterns. The writer's recommendation to 
ignore this huge package is a bit misguided.

I apologise again. Spatstat is the most comprehensive R package for
point processes nowadays, with contributions by most of the main
contributors to the field.

I recommended Splancs because Debs mentioned he was interested in
measuring clustering and then I thought of clustering in Spatial
Epidemiology, which is not probably what he wants to do. That was my
main reason to recommend Splancs and Diggle (2003). I know that most of
the analysis can be done with spatstat as well but I do not know if all
the methods are already included in spatstat. Probably they are now,
since I have noticed a big grow in the number of functions in recent
releases.

Finally, I would like to say that I also use spatstat myself to analyse
point patterns.

Best regards,

Virgilio