stplanr (version 0.1.4)

SpatialLinesNetwork: Create object of class SpatialLinesNetwork from SpatialLinesDataFrame

Description

Creates a new SpatialLinesNetwork object that can be used for routing analysis within R.

Usage

SpatialLinesNetwork(sl, uselonglat = FALSE)

Arguments

sl

A SpatialLines or SpatialLinesDataFrame containing the lines to use to create the network.

uselonglat

A boolean value indicating if the data should be assumed to be using WGS84 latitude/longitude coordinates. If FALSE or not set, uses the coordinate system specified by the SpatialLines object.

Details

This function is used to create a new SpatialLinesNetwork from an existing SpatialLines or SpatialLinesDataFrame object. A typical use case is to represent a transport network for routing and other network analysis functions. This function and the corresponding SpatialLinesNetwork class is an implementation of the SpatialLinesNetwork developed by Edzer Pebesma and presented on RPubs. The original implementation has been rewritten to better support large (i.e., detailed city-size) networks and to provide additional methods useful for conducting transport research following on from the initial examples provided by Janoska(2013).

References

Pebesma, E. (2013). Spatial Networks, URL:http://rpubs.com/edzer/6767.

Janoska, Z. (2013). Find shortest path in spatial network, URL:http://rpubs.com/janoskaz/10396.

Examples

data(routes_fast)
rnet <- overline(sldf = routes_fast, attrib = "length")
SLN <- SpatialLinesNetwork(rnet)
weightfield(SLN) # field used to determine shortest path
shortpath <- sum_network_routes(SLN, 1, 50, sumvars = "length")
plot(shortpath, col = "red", lwd = 4)
plot(SLN, add = TRUE)