R help - Mar 2014 - regular pentagon

Hello, everyone,

Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular 
pentagon? Thanks in advance!

Yuanzhi

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Oh, and my answer is yes I do.

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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Yuanzhi Li <Yuanzhi.Li at usherbrooke.ca>
wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
>
> Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular
> pentagon? Thanks in advance!
>
> Yuanzhi
>
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On 08/03/14 10:22, Yuanzhi Li wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
>
> Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular
> pentagon? Thanks in advance!
You can easily do this using the spatstat package.

cheers,

Rolf Turner