spatialAtRisk.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame: spatialAtRisk.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame function
Description
Creates a spatialAtRisk object from a
SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame':
spatialAtRisk(X, ...)
Arguments
X
a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object; one column of
the data frame should have name "atrisk", containing the
aggregate population at risk for that region
...
additional arguments
Value
object of class spatialAtRisk
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