Extract spatial ids from weights list object, spdep R

Question

I have used mat2listw{spdep} to create a weights list object that I will later use in a spatial regression. I would like to retrieve from this weights list object the ids of the polygons used to create it. Is it possible to recover this info from the object?

Here is a reproducible example:

library(spdep)
library(UScensus2000tract)

# load data
  data("oregon.tract")

# get coordinates of centroids
  coords <- coordinates(oregon.tract)

# calculate a simple distance matrix between coordinates
  d <- dist(coords) 
  d <- as.matrix(d)

# Calculate Spatial weights Matrix (travel time)
  my_weights <- mat2listw(d, row.names = row.names(oregon.tract))

# Now I'd like to extract from my_weights the polygon ids

@ahly , it works perfectly. Please, post your comment as an answer so I can accept it. Thanks. — rafa.pereira, May 04 '17 at 20:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '17 at 22:12

library(spdep)
library(UScensus2000tract)

# load data
  data("oregon.tract")

# get coordinates of centroids
  coords <- coordinates(oregon.tract)

# calculate a simple distance matrix between coordinates
  d <- dist(coords) 
  d <- as.matrix(d)

# Calculate Spatial weights Matrix (travel time)
  my_weights <- mat2listw(d, row.names = row.names(oregon.tract))

# Extract region ids from attributes of my_weights
region.ids <- attributes(my_weights)$region.id

head(region.ids)
[1] "oregon_0" "oregon_1" "oregon_2" "oregon_3" "oregon_4" "oregon_5"

Extract spatial ids from weights list object, spdep R

1 Answers1