summary.im {spatstat.geom} | R Documentation |
Summarizing a Pixel Image
Description
summary
method for class "im"
.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'im'
summary(object, ...)
## S3 method for class 'summary.im'
print(x, ...)
Arguments
object |
A pixel image. |
... |
Ignored. |
x |
Object of class |
Details
This is a method for the generic summary
for the class "im"
. An object of class "im"
describes a pixel image. See im.object
)
for details of this class.
summary.im
extracts information about the pixel image,
and print.summary.im
prints this information in a
comprehensible format.
In normal usage, print.summary.im
is invoked implicitly
when the user calls summary.im
without assigning its value
to anything. See the examples.
The information extracted by summary.im
includes
- range
The range of the image values.
- mean
The mean of the image values.
- integral
The “integral” of the image values, calculated as the sum of the image values multiplied by the area of one pixel.
- dim
The dimensions of the pixel array:
dim[1]
is the number of rows in the array, corresponding to the y coordinate.
Value
summary.im
returns an object of class "summary.im"
,
while print.summary.im
returns NULL
.
Author(s)
Adrian Baddeley Adrian.Baddeley@curtin.edu.au and Rolf Turner rolfturner@posteo.net
See Also
mean.im
, integral.im
, anyNA.im
Examples
# make an image
X <- as.im(function(x,y) {x^2}, unit.square())
# summarize it
summary(X)
# save the summary
s <- summary(X)
# print it
print(X)
s
# extract stuff
X$dim
X$range
X$integral