drawing order in spplot

Thanks for this Arien,

Just can't get it to work though. I messed around a bit more yesterday 
but couldn't find a way. No one else on the list replied. I have another 
reason to want to do something similar, so I was hoping there was a work 
around out there. Here is the data if you (or anyone else) can help.

load(file=url("ftp://200.23.34.16/simulacion/SPATIAL/chisgrid.rob"))
load(file=url("ftp://200.23.34.16/simulacion/SPATIAL//municipios.rob"))

#municipios was originally imported from a shapefile. The "dem" is a 
coarse 1 km x 1km grid imported from GRASS 5.7. Both use UTM NAD27, but 
the projections are not #set. The data represents the state of Chiapas 
in Southern Mexico

image(chisgrid,"dem",col=terrain.colors(100))
plot(municipios,add=T)

#Gives what we wanted in base graphics

#But
 
spplot(municipios, "AREA", panel <- function(x,y,...){
    sp.grid(chisgrid)
    panel.polygonsplot(x,y,...)
    })
#Doesn't

#and

municips <- list("sp.polygons", municipios)
spplot(chisgrid["dem"],sp.layout=municips)

#Draws them in the wrong order.

#As an aside, this is great fun with rgl and the students loved it. Can 
anyone improve the code?

view3d<-function(grid=chisgrid,dem=1,drape=2,exag=3,pal=sp.theme()$regions$col){
  fullgrid(grid)<-TRUE
  y<-grid[[dem]]*exag
  y[is.na(y)]<-0
  dim(y)<-grid at grid@cells.dim

  x <- grid at grid@cellsize[1]*(1:grid at grid@cells.dim[1])
  z <-grid at grid@cellsize[2]*(1:grid at grid@cells.dim[2])

  y2<-grid[[drape]]
  y2[!is.na(y2)]<-as.numeric(cut( y2[!is.na(y2)],length(pal)))
  y2[is.na(y2)]<-0

  ylim <- range(y2)
  ylen <- ylim[2] - ylim[1] + 1

  pal<-c("black",pal)
  col <- pal[ y2-ylim[1]+1 ] # assign colors to heights for each point

  rgl.clear()
  rgl.surface(x, z, y, color=col)
}

view3d(drape=1,pal=terrain.colors(100))

Duncan

I stumbled there too.
A way is to customize the default panel function within spplot.

Try:

spplot(municipios, "yourvariable", panel <- function(x,y,...){
    sp.grid(chisgrid)
    panel.polygonsplot(x,y,...)
    })

Regards, Arien

Duncan Golicher schreef:

Many thanks to everyone involved in putting together the excelent sp 
package. I have just used for teaching a brief intro to applied 
geostats with gstat. Students found life much easier than a year ago 
when I had to try to explain a less structured approach to the data.
A simple question arose after the class. According to the spplot 
documentation "for grids and polygons sp.layout is drawn afterwards 
(so the item will not be overdrawn by the grid and/or polygon)".
So in this example we expected a DEM to be drawn first, then 
municipal boundaries.

 > class(municipios)

[1] "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"

 > class(chisgrid)

[1] "SpatialPixelsDataFrame"

municips <- list("sp.polygons", municipios)
spplot(chisgrid["dem"],sp.layout=municips)

The municipal boundaries are drawn first then overdrawn by the DEM, 
which was not what we expected or wanted. I couldn't find how to 
avoid this, apart from the simple solution of ..

image(chisgrid,col=terrain.colors(20))
plot(municipios,add=T)

instead of spplot.The figures on  http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net 
all appear to have the grid drawn first. Is there a way to reverse this?

Duncan

Dr Duncan Golicher
Ecologia y Sistematica Terrestre
Conservaci?n de la Biodiversidad
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
San Cristobal de Las Casas, 
Chiapas, Mexico

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