spatstat (version 1.23-1)

periodify: Make Periodic Copies of a Spatial Pattern

Description

Given a spatial pattern (point pattern, line segment pattern, window, etc) make shifted copies of the pattern and optionally combine them to make a periodic pattern.

Usage

periodify(X, ...)
## S3 method for class 'ppp':
periodify(X, nx = 1, ny = 1, ...,
           combine=TRUE, warn=TRUE, check=TRUE,
           ix=(-nx):nx, iy=(-ny):ny,
           ixy=expand.grid(ix=ix,iy=iy))
## S3 method for class 'psp':
periodify(X, nx = 1, ny = 1, ..., 
           combine=TRUE, warn=TRUE, check=TRUE,
           ix=(-nx):nx, iy=(-ny):ny, 
           ixy=expand.grid(ix=ix,iy=iy))
## S3 method for class 'owin':
periodify(X, nx = 1, ny = 1, ...,
           combine=TRUE, warn=TRUE, 
           ix=(-nx):nx, iy=(-ny):ny,
           ixy=expand.grid(ix=ix,iy=iy))

Arguments

X

An object representing a spatial pattern (point pattern, line segment pattern or window).

nx,ny

Integers. Numbers of additional copies of X in each direction. (Overruled by ix, iy, ixy).

...

Ignored.

combine

Logical flag determining whether the copies should be superimposed to make an object like X (if combine=TRUE) or simply returned as a list of objects (combine=FALSE).

warn

Logical flag determining whether to issue warnings.

check

Logical flag determining whether to check the validity of the combined pattern.

ix, iy

Integer vectors determining the grid positions of the copies of X. (Overruled by ixy).

ixy

Matrix or data frame with two columns, giving the grid positions of the copies of X.

Value

• If combine=TRUE, an object of the same class as X. If combine=FALSE, a list of objects of the same class as X.

Details

Given a spatial pattern (point pattern, line segment pattern, etc) this function makes a number of shifted copies of the pattern and optionally combines them. The function periodify is generic, with methods for various kinds of spatial objects.

The default is to make a 3 by 3 array of copies of X and combine them into a single pattern of the same kind as X. This can be used (for example) to compute toroidal or periodic edge corrections for various operations on X. If the arguments ix, iy or ixy are specified, then these determine the grid positions of the copies of X that will be made. For example (ix,iy) = (1, 2) means a copy of X shifted by the vector (ix * w, iy * h) where w,h are the width and height of the bounding rectangle of X.

If combine=TRUE (the default) the copies of X are superimposed to create an object of the same kind as X. If combine=FALSE the copies of X are returned as a list.

See Also

shift

Examples

data(cells)
  plot(periodify(cells))
  a <- lapply(periodify(cells$window, combine=FALSE),
        plot, add=TRUE,lty=2)