two questions about spdep package

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Dear friends,
 I met two problems in spdep package and hope to get help.

1. "*coords* :matrix of point coordinates " appeared in spdep package for
several times,but i can't find how to generate it, could anybody tell me how
to generate the argument "* coords*",
 e.g. tri2nb(*coords*, row.names = NULL)
It is a two-column matrix of the coordinate points.
2.  In "write.nb.gal:Write a neighbours list as a GAL *lattice* file, may
also use newer GeoDa header format" , it refered the definition of lattice
data. Frankly speaking, i'm not very clear about the difference of grid data
and lattice data. Anybody who have a clear understanding about them give me
a brief

The terminology is pretty mixed up, even in GIS. As Danlin suggested, a 
GIS book may help, and the description in Waller & Gotway (2004) Applied 
Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data, Chapter 3, is good too. You are 
probably right that the word "lattice" on the write.nb.gal help page is 
not well chosen, when in fact lattice should refer to a tesselation, 
regular or irregular. GeoDa documentation calls GAL format files spatial 
weights files, while they could also be called spatial neighbour files. I 
will try to find a better fording for the help page.

Roger
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