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Clipping problem

3 messages · Peter Larson, Edzer Pebesma, Kamran Safi

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Hello all,

I have a grid of points and a spatial polygon shape file. I want to
clip the grid so that I only have the point which lie within the
shapefile.

I tried the following code:

## create a grid onto which we will interpolate:
## first get the range in data
x.range <- c(37,50)
y.range <- c(29,38)

## now expand to a grid with 500 meter spacing:
grd <- expand.grid(x=seq(from=x.range[1], to=x.range[2], by=.01),
y=seq(from=y.range[1], to=y.range[2], by=.01) )

## convert to SpatialPixel class
coordinates(grd) <- ~ x+y
gridded(grd) <- TRUE

## Read in Shapefile
ccShapet=readShapePoly('IRQ_adm0') # here cbg00barncnty is an ArcGIS shapefile

## Clip
clip <- overlay(grd, ccShapet)

#Plot
plot(clip)

BUT it does not work. I just get a vector of number and NA's, but not
the clipped grid.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Pete
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And that is how it is documented: the help obtained by

methods?overlay

tells you about the method used:

     x = "SpatialPoints", y = "SpatialPolygons" returns a numeric
          vector of length equal to the number of points; the number is
          the index (number) of the polygon of ?y? in which a point
          falls; NA denotes the point does not fall in a polygon; if a
          point falls in multiple polygons, the last polygon is
          recorded.

so

plot(grd[!is.na(clip)])

should give you the pixels inside the polygon(s).
On 10/28/2010 10:23 PM, Peter Larson wrote:

  
    
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Hi Pete,

you get the indices of the points inside the polygons and the associated 
polygon ID value.

something like

clip<- grd[!is.na(overlay(grd, ccShapet)),]



should do.

Hope this helps, although I did not check the line in particular (just 
from the top of my head)

Kamran

Am 28.10.2010 22:23, schrieb Peter Larson:
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