I have some irregularly spaced data points I want to interpolate (and ideally extrapolate marginally beyond). I have been using Akima and predict surface but this interpolates through the whole convex hull region. As this space includes a large region where there are actually no data points I want to curb the extent to which it does this.
Hopefully the following will make this somewhat more clear! #load Akima library library(akima) #define data x<-c(seq(1,10,by=1),c(4,2,2,9,8,6)) y<-c(seq(1,10,by=1),c(1,2,4,6,8,9)) z<-c(seq(1,16,by=1)) df<-as.data.frame(cbind(x,y)) colnames(df)<-c("x","y") #perform tps interpolation Tps(df,z)->out #output surface data out2<-predict.surface(out,extrap=F) #plot image(out2,xlim=c(0,10),ylim=c(0,10)) points(df) I want to curb the interpolation are to something more like this (although a bit smoother!) df_poly<-cbind(c(4,5.5,5,1),c(5,6,9,6)) polygon(df_poly,col="white",border="white") extrap and cull.mask in predict.surface seemed promising but could just not get this to work? Any help appreciated! Cheers ______________________________________________ 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.