It's not clear to me what problem you're having.
tan(data$slope)
should work. As should
log(data$uparea/data$slope)
I suggest that you provide a small subset of example data along with an
example of any code you've tried, and the output that you'd like.
Jean
Tom Vanwalleghem wrote on 08/25/2011 05:54:01 AM:
>
> Dear R helpers,
> I'm new to R and struggling with applying functions to a spatial
> grid data frame, called data for example.data has a variable named
> "slope" and "uparea"
> Basically, I need to calculate the tan(data$slope)Next, I need to
> divide data$uparea by data$slope and take the log() of that all
> In the basic examples I found how to make simple multiplications
> with a scalar likedata[["slope"]] = data[["slope"]]/2 # assigns new
attribute
> I come from a background in GIS and fortran, so used to dealing with
> ordinary matrices, I'll admit I'm having trouble with understanding
> the format of this spatial grid data frame structureI've been trying
> different methods to index the data frame, or working with the
> function "lapply" but so far I can't seem to get my head wrapped around
it.
> I appreciate any help.TomResearcher@University of CordobaSpain
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