I have used hierarchical clustering to assign lats and longs (start and end positions of lines) to separate cluster IDs. I now need to convert each cluster of points to a polygon. My first attempt was with CHULL, with the aim to then convert each convex polygon to a polygon layer. However, I cannot get the hulls to plot by cluster and then save as an external object. I think the easiest method would be to take the outside points of each cluster of points and connect them with a polyline and then convert it to a polygon. I have 100s of clusters per year (13 years) so I do not want to have 1000s of separate polygon files, but instead one layer with all the polygons per year. Dummy data to show approximate structure: GISID x y Attribute Year CLUSTER_ID 1 -129.24 52.994 Start 2005 1 2 -131.26 52.73 Start 2006 33 3 -126.02 49.297 End 2005 5 ... Any advice, helpfiles, or vignettes would be greatly appreciated. I've read a variety of stackoverflow entries and r-sig-geo entries and have unsuccessfully adapted other solutions. e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44928507/draw-polygons-around-clusters-from-hclust https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/usecases/GenerateConvexHullAndROIForPoints Thanks!
converting hierarchical clusters to polygons
1 message · Bannar-Martin, Katherine