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Identify points that lie within polygon

4 messages · Ally, Rui Barradas, Jeff Newmiller

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I have a complex 2D polygon with thousands of vertices, and I'd like to be
able to identify points from a large set contained within the polygon, and
was wondering if there might be an efficient way of doing this?  Any advice
would be useful!  Here is a small example of what I mean:

# make polygon
v1<-c(0,1,1,2,1,3,6,7)
v2<-c(1,3,3,5,6,7,8,9)
plot(v1, v2, type = "n" )
polygon(v1, v2, lwd = 2, col = "red")

# plot a set of candidate grid points
grid<-seq(0, 10, length.out = 30)
pts<-expand.grid(grid, grid)
points(pts, pch = 19, col = 1, cex = 1)

Many thanks!

Alastair




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Hello,

With your example run and click 10 black points inside the area.

ploc <- locator(n=10)
points(ploc$x, ploc$y, pch = 19, col = "green", cex = 1)

Hope this helps,

Rui Barradas

Em 06-08-2012 16:05, Ally escreveu:
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This is off-topic (not about R), and a quick Web search of "test within polygon" yields many results, and adding "R" to the search when using Google provides hints about applying the algorithms in R.
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Ally <a.rushworth at stats.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

            
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Thanks for the suggestion, got exactly what I needed from 

library(splancs)
?pip

Alastair 


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