I am using package ks() to build 3D representations of bird territories and calculate territory volume from spatial data (simply x, y, and z coordinates). What I want to do is determine at what sample size (# locations collected) does the territory volume stop increasing. This should give me an idea of the number of points needed for future seasons.
So I have a couple of birds each with 200 spatial locations (x,y,z). I want to run the following code (see below), but have R calculate territory size 100 times with 10 random points (no replacement), 100 times with 20 random points, 100 times with 30 random points, etc. I can figure out how to do this manually (i.e. create 100 individual files with 10 random points, 20 random points, etc.) but I figure there must be a way to make my life easier. Any help would be appreciated. Even pointing me in the correct direction would be a big help. Thanks! Nathan #read data files (.csv's with 200 rows of x,y,z coordinates) a<-read.csv("A_PW_ASY_M_LII_2011.csv") #calls the plug-in bandwidth estimator Ha <- Hpi(a) #sets min/max grid size for each dimension minX<-min(a$X)-25 minY<-min(a$Y)-25 minZ<-0 maxX<-max(a$X)+25 maxY<-max(a$Y)+25 maxZ<-max(a$Z)+5 #creates kernel utilization distribution fhata <- kde(x=a, H=Ha, binned=FALSE, xmin=c(minX,minY,minZ), xmax=c(maxX,maxY,maxZ)) #calculates territory volume at 95% isopleth Vol95<-contourSizes(fhata, cont=95) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Resampling-Help-Needed-tp4651973.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.