I'm sure this will be a very straight forward answer. I am new to R and still finding my around it's data types. Currently importing data from MySQL however I can't quite figure out how to separate the columns bracketed inside a WKT point type.
I am running the following statement which involves a query to a shapefile contained within a database.
mydb = dbConnect(MySQL(), user='root', password='mrwolf',dbname='jtw_schema', host='localhost')
strSQL = "select sa2_main11, astext(shape) as geom from centroids
where (gcc_name11 = 'Greater Sydney')
and (sa4_name11 != 'Central Coast')
and (sa4_name11 not like '%Outer West%' )
and (sa4_name11 not like '%Baulkham Hills%')
and (sa4_name11 not like '%Outer South West%')"
dfCord = dbGetQuery(mydb, strSQL)
Which results in:
sa2_main11 geom
1 116011303 POINT(150.911550090995 -33.7568493603359)
2 116011304 POINT(150.889312296536 -33.7485997378428)
3 116011305 POINT(150.898781823296 -33.7817496751367)
4 116011306 POINT(150.872046414103 -33.7649465663774)
....
What I want to achieve is
sa2_main11 Lat Long
1 116011303 150.911550090995 -33.7568493603359
2 116011304 150.889312296536 -33.7485997378428
3 116011305 150.898781823296 -33.7817496751367
4 116011306 150.872046414103 -33.7649465663774
....
Apologies if this is very simple question, but have searched for separating WKT data and couldn't find any examples. Could try string search or similar but I imagine there is probably a "R-ish" way to do it.
not a direct answer, but a workaround. (assuming the geom column is a character vector? not sure if this is what you are looking for.)
df <- data.frame(sa2_main11 = c("a","b","c", "d"),
geom = c("POINT(150.911550090995 -33.7568493603359)",
"POINT(150.889312296536 -33.7485997378428)",
"POINT(150.898781823296 -33.7817496751367)",
"POINT(150.872046414103 -33.7649465663774)"), stringsAsFactors = F)
df$longitude <- as.numeric(gsub(".*?([-]*[0-9]+[.][0-9]+).*", "\\1", df$geom))
df$latitude <- as.numeric(gsub(".* ([-]*[0-9]+[.][0-9]+).*", "\\1", df$geom))
df$geom <- NULL
This works for your data set if you get df
as a data.frame from your data base.
df <- data.frame(sa2_main11 = c(116011303, 116011304, 116011305, 116011306),
geom = c("POINT(150.911550090995 -33.7568493603359)",
"POINT(150.889312296536 -33.7485997378428)",
"POINT(150.898781823296 -33.7817496751367)",
"POINT(150.872046414103 -33.7649465663774)"))
geom <- sub(df$geom, pattern = "POINT", replacement = "")
geom <- sub(geom, pattern = "[(]", replacement = "")
geom <- sub(geom, pattern = "[)]", replacement = "")
lonlat <- unlist(strsplit(geom, split = " "))
df$lat <- lonlat[seq(1, length(lonlat), 2)]
df$long <- lonlat[seq(2, length(lonlat), 2)]
df
# sa2_main11 geom lat long
# 1 116011303 POINT(150.911550090995 -33.7568493603359) 150.911550090995 -33.7568493603359
# 2 116011304 POINT(150.889312296536 -33.7485997378428) 150.889312296536 -33.7485997378428
# 3 116011305 POINT(150.898781823296 -33.7817496751367) 150.898781823296 -33.7817496751367
# 4 116011306 POINT(150.872046414103 -33.7649465663774) 150.872046414103 -33.7649465663774
In the end I managed to separate out the lat and long using a change to the SQL query as follows. In particular, the SUBSTR command. Seemed to make more sense than cleaning it up inside R.
select sa2_main11, substr(ASTEXT(shape), 7, 12) as lon,
case
when ltrim(substr(ASTEXT(shape), 23, 12)) > 0
then ltrim(substr(ASTEXT(shape), 23, 10)) * -1
else ltrim(substr(ASTEXT(shape), 23, 12))
end
as lat from centroids
This produced the following output:
sa2_main11, lon, lat
'116011303', '150.91155009', '-33.7568493'
'116011304', '150.88931229', '-33.7485997'
'116011305', '150.89878182', '-33.7817496'
'116011306', '150.87204641', '-33.7649465'
'116011307', '150.93909408', '-33.7617792'
Many thanks for your suggestions, was all helpful in understanding R
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