make_spatial_fold {spatialRF}

Makes one training and one testing spatial folds

Description

Used internally by make_spatial_folds() and rf_evaluate(). Uses the coordinates of a point xy.i to generate two spatially independent data folds from the data frame xy. It does so by growing a rectangular buffer from xy.i until a number of records defined by training.fraction is inside the buffer. The indices of these records are then stored as "training" in the output list. The indices of the remaining records outside of the buffer are stored as "testing". These training and testing records can be then used to evaluate a model on independent data via cross-validation.

Usage

make_spatial_fold(
  data = NULL,
  dependent.variable.name = NULL,
  xy.i = NULL,
  xy = NULL,
  distance.step.x = NULL,
  distance.step.y = NULL,
  training.fraction = 0.8
)

Arguments

data

Data frame with a response variable and a set of predictors. Default: NULL

dependent.variable.name

Character string with the name of the response variable. Must be in the column names of data. Default: NULL

xy.i

One row data frame with at least three columns: "x" (longitude), "y" (latitude), and "id" (integer, id of the record). Can be a row of xy. Default: NULL.

xy

A data frame with at least three columns: "x" (longitude), "y" (latitude), and "id" (integer, index of the record). Default: NULL.

distance.step.x

Numeric, distance step used during the growth in the x axis of the buffers defining the training folds. Default: NULL (1/1000th the range of the x coordinates).

distance.step.y

Numeric, distance step used during the growth in the y axis of the buffers defining the training folds. Default: NULL (1/1000th the range of the y coordinates).

training.fraction

Numeric, fraction of the data to be included in the training fold, Default: 0.8.

Value

A list with two slots named training and testing with the former having the indices of the training records selected from xy, and the latter having the indices of the testing records.

See Also

make_spatial_folds(), rf_evaluate()

Examples

if(interactive()){

 #loading example data
 data(plant_richness_df)

 #getting case coordinates
 xy <- plant_richness_df[, 1:3]
 colnames(xy) <- c("id", "x", "y")

 #building a spatial fold centered in the first pair of coordinates
 out <- make_spatial_fold(
   xy.i = xy[1, ],
   xy = xy,
   training.fraction = 0.6
 )

 #indices of the training and testing folds
 out$training
 out$testing

 #plotting the data
 plot(xy[ c("x", "y")], type = "n", xlab = "", ylab = "")
 #plots training points
 points(xy[out$training, c("x", "y")], col = "red4", pch = 15)
 #plots testing points
 points(xy[out$testing, c("x", "y")], col = "blue4", pch = 15)
 #plots xy.i
 points(xy[1, c("x", "y")], col = "black", pch = 15, cex = 2)

}