[R] densCols: what are the computed densities and how to create a legend

2010-04-19 Thread Kate Zinszer
Hi, I'm using the densCols function for a scatterplot and cannot figure out 1) how to extract the computed densities, and 2) how to create a legend based that represents the upper and lower ranges of the densities. For example: movers.den <- densCols(move$x, move$y) table(movers.den) #08306B

[R] kernel density estimation for univariate data using splancs

2009-08-18 Thread Kate Zinszer
Hi, I previously received help in extract data from a shapefile and now my question is about kernel density estimation. My objective is to have 3 kernel density plots; 2 for the each set of cases and the 3rd is the difference in kernel densities between the 2 sets of cases. Previously, I used

[R] extract data from shapefiles

2009-08-14 Thread Kate Zinszer
I'm hoping that someone could guide me in how to extract data from shapefiles. I want to extract data from a shapefile (classed as "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame") and more specifically, the data is contained within the slot called "coords" from the class "polygons" within this file and despite my b