graphneigh: Graph based spatial weights

Description

Functions return a graph object containing a list with the vertex coordinates and the to and from indices defining the edges. Some/all of these functions assume that the coordinates are not exactly regularly spaced. The helper function graph2nb converts a graph object into a neighbour list. The plot functions plot the graph objects.

Usage

gabrielneigh(coords, nnmult=3)
relativeneigh(coords, nnmult=3)
soi.graph(tri.nb, coords, quadsegs=10)
graph2nb(gob, row.names=NULL,sym=FALSE)
"plot"(x, show.points=FALSE, add=FALSE, linecol=par(col), ...)
"plot"(x, show.points=FALSE, add=FALSE, linecol=par(col),...)

Arguments

coords

matrix of region point coordinates

nnmult

scaling factor for memory allocation, default 3; if higher values are required, the function will exit with an error; example below thanks to Dan Putler

tri.nb

a neighbor list created from tri2nb

quadsegs

number of line segments making a quarter circle buffer, see gBuffer

gob

a graph object created from any of the graph funtions

row.names

character vector of region ids to be added to the neighbours list as attribute region.id, default

seq(1,
      nrow(x))

sym

a logical argument indicating whether or not neighbors should be symetric (if i->j then j->i)

object to be plotted

show.points

(logical) add points to plot

add

(logical) add to existing plot

linecol

edge plotting colour

...

further graphical parameters as in par(..)

Value

A list of class Graph withte following elementsThe helper functions return an nb object with a list of integer vectors containing neighbour region number ids.

Details

The graph functions produce graphs on a 2d point set that

are all subgraphs of the Delaunay triangulation. The relative neighbor graph is defined by the relation, x and y are neighbors if

$$d(x,y) \le min(max(d(x,z),d(y,z))| z \in S)$$

where d() is the distance, S is the set of points and z is an arbitrary point in S. The Gabriel graph is a subgraph of the delaunay triangulation and has the relative neighbor graph as a sub-graph. The relative neighbor graph is defined by the relation x and y are Gabriel neighbors if

$$d(x,y) \le min((d(x,z)^2 + d(y,z)^2)^{1/2} |z \in S)$$

where x,y,z and S are as before. The sphere of influence graph is defined for a finite point set S, let $r_x$ be the distance from point x to its nearest neighbor in S, and $C_x$ is the circle centered on x. Then x and y are SOI neigbors iff $C_x$ and $C_y$ intersect in at least 2 places. From 2016-05-31, Computational Geometry in C code replaced by calls to functions in RANN and rgeos; with a large quadsegs= argument, the behaviour of the function is the same, otherwise buffer intersections only closely approximate the original function.

See card for details of “nb” objects.

References

Matula, D. W. and Sokal R. R. 1980, Properties of Gabriel graphs relevant to geographic variation research and the clustering of points in the plane, Geographic Analysis, 12(3), pp. 205-222.

Toussaint, G. T. 1980, The relative neighborhood graph of a finite planar set, Pattern Recognition, 12(4), pp. 261-268.

Kirkpatrick, D. G. and Radke, J. D. 1985, A framework for computational morphology. In Computational Geometry, Ed. G. T. Toussaint, North Holland.

Examples

Run this code

example(columbus)
coords <- coordinates(columbus)
par(mfrow=c(2,2))
col.tri.nb<-tri2nb(coords)
col.gab.nb<-graph2nb(gabrielneigh(coords), sym=TRUE)
col.rel.nb<- graph2nb(relativeneigh(coords), sym=TRUE)
plot(columbus, border="grey")
plot(col.tri.nb,coords,add=TRUE)
title(main="Delaunay Triangulation")
plot(columbus, border="grey")
plot(col.gab.nb, coords, add=TRUE)
title(main="Gabriel Graph")
plot(columbus, border="grey")
plot(col.rel.nb, coords, add=TRUE)
title(main="Relative Neighbor Graph")
plot(columbus, border="grey")
if (require(rgeos, quietly=TRUE) && require(RANN, quietly=TRUE)) {
  col.soi.nb<- graph2nb(soi.graph(col.tri.nb,coords), sym=TRUE)
  plot(col.soi.nb, coords, add=TRUE)
  title(main="Sphere of Influence Graph")
}
par(mfrow=c(1,1))
dx <- rep(0.25*0:4,5)
dy <- c(rep(0,5),rep(0.25,5),rep(0.5,5), rep(0.75,5),rep(1,5))
m <- cbind(c(dx, dx, 3+dx, 3+dx), c(dy, 3+dy, dy, 3+dy))
try(res <- gabrielneigh(m))
res <- gabrielneigh(m, nnmult=4)
summary(graph2nb(res))
grd <- as.matrix(expand.grid(x=1:5, y=1:5)) #gridded data
r2 <- gabrielneigh(grd)
set.seed(1)
grd1 <- as.matrix(expand.grid(x=1:5, y=1:5)) + matrix(runif(50, .0001, .0006), nrow=25)
r3 <- gabrielneigh(grd1)
opar <- par(mfrow=c(1,2))
plot(r2, show=TRUE, linecol=2)
plot(r3, show=TRUE, linecol=2)
par(opar)

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