| combineEvents {PBSmapping} | R Documentation | 
Combines measurements associated with events that occur in the same polygon.
combineEvents (events, locs, FUN, ..., bdryOK = TRUE)
events | 
EventData with at least four columns (EID,
X, Y, Z). | 
locs | 
LocationSet usually resulting from a call to
findPolys. | 
FUN | 
a function that produces a scalar from a vector
(e.g., mean, sum). | 
... | 
optional arguments for FUN. | 
bdryOK | 
Boolean value; if TRUE, include boundary points. | 
This function combines measurements associated with events that occur
in the same polygon.  Each event (EID) has a corresponding
measurement Z.  The locs data frame (usually output from
findPolys) places events within polygons.  Thus, each
polygon (PID, SID) determines a set of events within it,
and a corresponding vector of measurements Zv.  The function
returns FUN(Zv), a summary of measurements within each polygon.
PolyData with columns PID, SID (if in
locs), and Z.
findCells,
findPolys,
locateEvents,
locatePolys,
makeGrid,
makeProps.
#--- create an EventData data frame: let each event have Z = 1
events <- data.frame(EID=1:10, X=1:10, Y=1:10, Z=rep(1, 10))
#--- example output from findPolys where 1 event occurred in the first
#--- polygon, 3 in the second, and 6 in the third
locs <- data.frame(EID=1:10, PID=c(rep(1, 1), rep(2, 3), rep(3, 6)),
                   Bdry=rep(0, 10))
#--- sum the Z column of the events in each polygon, and print the result
print(combineEvents(events=events, locs=locs, FUN=sum))