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read.bnd

Read Geographical Information in Boundary Format

Description

Reads the geographical information provided in a file in boundary format (see Ch. 5 of the BayesX Reference Manual) and stores it in a map object.

Usage

read.bnd(file, sorted=FALSE)

Arguments

`file`	Name of the boundary file to be read.
`sorted`	Should the regions be ordered by the numbers speciying the region names (`sorted=TRUE`)?

Value

Returns a list of polygons that form the map. Additional attributes are

`surrounding`	Parallel list where for each polygon, the name of a possible surrounding region is saved.
`height2width`	Ratio between height and width of the map. Allows customised drawing and storage in files by specifying the appropriate height and width.
`class`	Indicates whether the map is stored in boundary format (`bnd`) or graph format (`gra`). Maps returned by `read.bnd` are of class `bnd`

Author(s)

Daniel Sabanes Bove, Felix Heinzl, Thomas Kneib, Andreas Brezger

References

BayesX Reference Manual. Available from http://www.bayesx.org/

Examples

germany <- read.bnd(system.file("examples/germany.bnd", package="BayesX"))
drawmap(map=germany)
attributes(germany)

germany <- read.bnd(system.file("examples/germany2001.bnd", package="BayesX"))
drawmap(map=germany)
attributes(germany)

BayesX

R Utilities Accompanying the Software Package BayesX

v0.3-1

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Nikolaus Umlauf [aut, cre], Thomas Kneib [aut], Nadja Klein [aut], Felix Heinzl [ctb], Andreas Brezger [ctb], Daniel Sabanes Bove [ctb]

Initial release

2019-08-23