scoping issue with xyValues?

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Hi Roman,
I noticed that in xyValues.R there is no method for
signature(object="RasterLayer",
xy="vector"). Could this be a problem?
There is a signature(object="Raster", xy="vector"), and RasterLayer
inherits from Raster. However, that function does not have a 'buffer'
argument (an oversight, perhaps). I believe that is what causes your
grief (I need to look into this more carefully). You can probably fix
this by using the "..." argument in your function declaration; as
these will be passed on. At least in the example below test1, using
the dots, works, while test2 does not.

library(raster)
test1 = function(r, xy, ...) {  return( xyValues(r, xy, ...) ) }
test2 = function(r, xy, buffer, fun) { return( xyValues(r, xy,
buffer=buffer, fun=fun) )}

r = raster()
r[] = 1:ncell(r)
xy = c(0,0)

xyValues(r, c(0,0), buffer=100000, fun=mean)
test1(r, c(0,0), buffer=100000, fun=mean)
test2(r, c(0,0), buffer=100000, fun=mean)

Best, Robert
I have a function (that is within a function and everything wrapped in a
wrapper function) that uses raster::xyValues. When I run the wrapper
function and try to pass xy arguments as a vector (of 2, as mentioned in the
documentation), I get an error that the buffer argument (I call it
effect.distance) doesn't exist. At this point I should note that the object
is a RasterLayer. After some debugging I found that argument for buffer was
not being passed to xyValues local environment (unlike arguments for
objectand xy that had no trouble traversing).

How I made this work:
Either I created an effect.distance variable in the global environment or
coerced the vector of two to a matrix (with two columns).

I noticed that in xyValues.R there is no method for
signature(object="RasterLayer",
xy="vector"). Could this be a problem?

Cheers,
Roman

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