mst.nb {adespatial}

Function to compute neighborhood based on the minimum spanning tree

Description

Compute mst and returns as a nb object

Usage

mst.nb(dxy)

Arguments

dxy

A distance matrix based on spatial coordinates of samples

Value

An object of class nb

Author(s)

Stéphane Dray [e-mail]

See Also

graph2nb, give.thresh

Examples

xy <- matrix(rnorm(60),30,2)
dxy <- dist(xy)
th <- give.thresh(dxy)
nb1 <- mst.nb(dxy)
nb1
wh1 <- which(as.matrix(dxy)==th,arr.ind=TRUE)
plot(nb1,xy,pch=20,cex=2,lty=3)
lines(xy[wh1[1,],1],xy[wh1[1,],2],lwd=2)
title(main="Maximum distance of the minimum spanning tree in bold")