Hi David et al,
Thanks for your help. I spent the afternoon and thought that would work but then I realized it was giving a different answer.

I have counts ('hits') in each grid cell, and have then calculated the proportion of the total hits represented in each cell (such that the sum of all cells = 1). I want to take the cell with largest proportion, add the next largest proportion to it, etc until I reach 10% of the TOTAL number of 'hits'. Quantiles unfortunately are created using the total number of CELLS and not the total number of HITS, if that makes sense.

Any thoughts??

Many many thanks,
Sara
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Sara M. Maxwell, Ph.D.



On Apr 21, 2011, at 1:26 PM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Sara Maxwell wrote:

I am working with a raster and want to take values assigned to each cell and sort them from largest to smallest, then cummulatively sum them together (in order from largest to smallest). I'll then be coding the individual cells such that the top 10% of the largest cell values can be visualize with one color, the next 10% with another and so on.

I have tried a number of schemes but am having trouble figuring out how to chose the maximum value, code it and re-search the raster for the next highest value without replacement. I am assuming this requires a loop, unless there is a function that will do this automatically.

?quantile


Here is a sample dataset:

library(raster)
r <- raster(ncol=10, nrow=10)
values(r) <- runif(ncell(r))


> quantile(values(r), prob=seq(0,1,by=0.1))
        0%         10%         20%         30%         40%
0.004888148 0.106378528 0.217009097 0.307201289 0.364990984
       50%         60%         70%         80%         90%
0.512523817 0.593382875 0.667916094 0.722919876 0.835839832
      100%
0.996683575

You will also need findInterval()

If you want to create a factor that will assign your colors. perhaps this could be used to index a suitable color vector:

fac <- findInterval(values(r), quantile(values(r), prob=seq(0,1,by=0.1)) )
> fac
 [1]  6 10  1 10  7  7  8 10  2  9  9  1  6  2  9  1  9  4  2  2
[21]  3  4  8  9  7  1  9  2 10  5  4  9  8  1  8 10  1 11  3  5
[41]  5  6  6  5  6  7  4  7  5  3  8  6  3  4 10  4  7  7  8  9
[61] 10  4  1  8  8  8  3  7  5  1  9  5  2  7  2 10  3  8  4  9
[81]  6  6  2  6 10  5  5  4  3  6  2  2  1  3  3  3  4  7  1  5

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT


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