| trans2seg {pgirmess} | R Documentation |
Convert a transect coordinate file (eg: landmarks) into a matrix with segment coordinates.
trans2seg(vect)
vect |
A two column matrix or data.frame |
The argument passed is a matrix or data.frame of two columns each row is a transect interval; each column must start (first row) and end (last row) with a landmark ; intermediate landmarks must have coordinates in the two columns of the row. Other rows must be NA values.
A matrix of 4 columns to be passed eg to fonctions as "segments".
Patrick Giraudoux <pgiraudo@univ-fcomte.fr>
trans2pix
x<-c(10,NA, NA, NA,56,NA,NA,100)
y<-c(23,NA, NA, NA,32,NA,NA,150)
cols=c("red","blue","blue","blue","red","blue","blue","red")
plot(x,y,col=cols,pch=19)
mysegs<-trans2seg(cbind(x,y))
segments(mysegs[,1],mysegs[,2],mysegs[,3],mysegs[,4])