Standardize column names of returned spsample coordinates
samuel-rosa opened this issue · comments
Coordinates returned by spsample
can have different names depending on the sampling method used. For instance, random and hexagonal sampling return coordinate pairs named x
and y
, while for regular and nonaligned sampling coordinate pairs are named x1
and x2
. the reason for this is that the last two make use of makegrid0
to generate the samples, a function that contains the following line of code inside a for
-loop:
name = paste("x", i, sep = "")
I think that it is important to standardize the outputs of spsample
so that others can make a more efficient use of spsample
. For instance, this could be done by placing the following line o code at the end of the makegrid0
function definition:
colnames(xy) <- c('x', 'y')
I agree that might be nicer, but I essentially only change things in sp if it fixes bugs.
I understand. Would you be willing to mention this naming convention in the documentation, for example, in the notes?
Please feel free to submit a PR for that.