geostatsp (version 2.0.6)

swissRain: Swiss rainfall data

Description

Data from the SIC-97 project: Spatial Interpolation Comparison.

Usage

data("swissRain")

Format

swissRain is a SpatVector 100 daily rainfall measurements made in Switzerland on the 8th of May 1986. swissAltitude is a raster of elevation data, and swissLandType is a raster of land cover types.

Examples

data("swissRain")
swissRain = unwrap(swissRain)
swissAltitude = unwrap(swissAltitude)
swissBorder = unwrap(swissBorder)
swissLandType = unwrap(swissLandType)
plot(swissAltitude, main="elevation")
points(swissRain)
plot(swissBorder, add=TRUE)


# land type, a categorical variable
commonValues  = sort(table(values(swissLandType)),decreasing=TRUE)[1:5]
commonValues=commonValues[!names(commonValues)==0]

thelevels = levels(swissLandType)[[1]]$ID
thebreaks = c(-0.5, 0.5+thelevels)
thecol = rep(NA, length(thelevels))
names(thecol) = as.character(thelevels)

thecol[names(commonValues)] = rainbow(length(commonValues))

plot(swissLandType, breaks=thebreaks, col=thecol,legend=FALSE,
	main="land type")
points(swissRain)
plot(swissBorder, add=TRUE)


legend("left",fill=thecol[names(commonValues)],
		legend=substr(levels(swissLandType)[[1]][
						match(as.integer(names(commonValues)),
								levels(swissLandType)[[1]]$ID),
						"Category"], 1,12),
						bg= 'white'
				)