spdep (version 0.1-13)

read.gwt2nb: Read and write GeoDa GWT spatial neighbour files

Usage

read.gwt2nb(file, region.id=NULL)
write.sn2gwt(sn, file, shpfile=NULL, ind=NULL)

Arguments

file

name of file with GWT lattice data

region.id

region IDs

sn

a spatial.neighbour object

shpfile

Shapefile name taken from GWT file for this dataset

ind

region id indicator variable name

Value

References

Luc Anselin (2003) GeoDa 0.9 User's Guide, pp. 80--81, Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, http://agec221.agecon.uiuc.edu/csiss/pdf/geoda093.pdf

See Also

read.gal

Examples

data(baltimore)
STATION <- baltimore$STATION
gwt1 <- read.gwt2nb(system.file("etc/weights/baltk4.GWT", package="spdep")[1],
 STATION)
listw1 <- nb2listw(gwt1, style="B", glist=attr(gwt1, "GeoDa")$dist)
tmpGWT <- tempfile()
write.sn2gwt(listw2sn(listw1), tmpGWT)
gwt2 <- read.gwt2nb(tmpGWT, STATION)
diffnb(gwt1, gwt2)