spatstat help
where to find help
There is a Quick Reference Guide for
spatstat which summarises its capabilities and gives a comprehensive
list of spatstat commands. To view the Quick Reference guide
directly from R, load spatstat and type
help(spatstat). Alternatively open the full spatstat package
manual in a browser, and navigate to
the first entry in the manual.
For information about a particular function in spatstat, either
follow the links in the Quick Reference guide, or type
help(functionname). The keyword search function help.search can
be narrowed to the spatstat package:
help.search("systematic", package="spatstat")
will tell you the spatstat function to use for generating
``systematic’’ random point patterns.
Users of spatstat are strongly urged to read the online help files
for the package. Substantial effort has gone into writing clear, detailed and
comprehensive explanations of important concepts. Indeed several of the
spatstat help files have been plagiarised in scientific publications.
The spatstat online help files also include very practical guidance, warnings,
and explanations of common error messages.
The spatstat package is constantly evolving. Regular users of
spatstat can stay up-to-date by typing latest.news to read about
changes in the most recent version of spatstat, or
news(package="spatstat") to read about changes in all previous
versions. The package news is also available at the news
page, where you can sign up for notifications about new
releases via RSS.
Several introductory ``vignettes’’ are installed with spatstat. They
include a quickstart guide Getting Started with Spatstat, a document
about Handling shapefiles and a document summarising recent
updates. To see a list of all available vignettes, type (in the
R command line interface) vignette(); the list of spatstat
vignettes is given by vignette(package="spatstat"). To read a
vignette, type vignette('name') where name is the
name of the document without the file extension,
e.g. vignette("getstart"). Vignettes can also be accessed using the
graphical help interface invoked by help.start().
Several demonstration scripts are also installed with spatstat.
Type
demo(package=spatstat)
for a list of all available demonstrations, or demo(spatstat) for a
general overview.
Forums for questions
Questions about spatstat are often posted on the
stackexchange.com forum
(with the spatstat tag).
You may find that a similar question has already been
answered: check the old questions and answers under the spatstat
tag on stackoverflow.com.
The email forum R-sig-geo sometimes handles questions about spatstat.
General questions about R which are not spatstat-specific (and not
specific to some other contributed package) can be addressed to the
R-help forum. Join these or other fora by visiting
r-project.org.
You can also email the spatstat authors directly: load spatstat and
type ?spatstat to see the authors’ email addresses.
Bugs in spatstat
If you have identified a bug or problem in spatstat, please
post a report to the bug reports page at
github.com/spatstat/spatstat.
You will need to supply an example of the problem, and the example
should be reproducible.
You can also email the spatstat authors directly: load spatstat and
type ?spatstat to see the authors’ email addresses.