R help - Apr 2009 - Is a point into an ellipse

Hi,

I drew an ellipse with the package ellipse. Now I would like to know  if 
a point is inside the ellipse. Is any R functions to do it without 
computing the equation of the ellipse manually? Thanks.

For example, if I do "plot(ellipse(0.8), type = 'l')", I would
like to
know if (0,1) belongs to the drawn ellipse.


Regards,
Alain

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On 4/8/2009 11:17 AM, Alain Guillet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I drew an ellipse with the package ellipse. Now I would like to know  if 
> a point is inside the ellipse. Is any R functions to do it without 
> computing the equation of the ellipse manually? Thanks.
> 
> For example, if I do "plot(ellipse(0.8), type = 'l')", I
would like to
> know if (0,1) belongs to the drawn ellipse.
It's probably too late by then, but if you saved the result of the call 
to ellipse(0.8), and treat it as a polygon, there is the function 
point.in.polygon in the sp package, or pip in splancs, or inside in 
RFOC, or inside in GEOmap, etc.

Duncan Murdoch