similar to: Is xyz point inside 3d convex hull?

Dear UseRs, I would like to know which function is the most efficient in finding convex hull of points in 3(or 2)-dimensional case? Functions for finding convex hull is the following: convex.hull (tripack), chull (grDevices), in.chull (sgeostat), convhulln (geometry), convexhull.xy (spatstat), calcConvexHull (PBSmapping). I also would like to know if there is a function that can be used

Dear R gurus and users, I seem to have problem finding the right tool for plotting convex hulls over 2D plots, after a cluster analysis. In fact I would like to draw a convex hull in 2D for a generic group of points. I found a "convhulln", but this doesn't seem to give me a convex hull. Here is what I do: > library(mvtnorm) > Mean <- c(2,1) > Sigma <-

Dear List Members, I'm presently carrying out morphological analysis of a data set of neuronal structures. These are essentially 3D binary trees. In due course I will be trying to use discriminant analysis or other methods to classify these neurons based on morphological variables such as total tree length, segment number etc. I would like to calculate a 3D convex hull for a set of X,Y,Z

Ranjan Maitra writes: > Does anyone have a suggestion (or better still) code for sampling > from the uniform distribution over the convex hull of a set of > points? This is implemented in library 'spatstat'. If x and y are vectors of coordinates of your initial set of points, library(spatstat) W <- convexhull.xy(x, y) P <- runifpoint(42, W) will compute

Hi there, I have been using the Tps function (within the Fields package) for a while now to interpolate different sedimentary units. Due to the method of formation of the units I know that at some edges the thickness of the unit decreases to zero. I was wondering if there was someway to specify that the interpolation only occurs within the convex hull of the data, outside of which the the values

Does anyone know of a R package that will determine the convex hull of a high-dimensional dataset (say 4-10 dimensions). I know chull works for 2D data. I'm neophyte to R and convex hulls so please keep it simple. Many thanks Ben -- Ben Stapley. Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD. Tel 0161 200 5818 Fax 0161 236 0409

Dear list, Does anyone have a suggestion (or better still) code for sampling from the uniform distribution over the convex hull of a set of points? Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan

Does anybody know if there are functions to: 1. Define a convex hull on a space with more than 2 dimensions? chull just works for a plane. 2. Numerically select elements within a given complex hull. Thanks! Dr. Agustin Lobo Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra (CSIC) Lluis Sole Sabaris s/n 08028 Barcelona SPAIN tel 34 93409 5410 fax 34 93411 0012 alobo at ija.csic.es

Dear all, I have several sets of x-y-z points and I need to estimate the volume that encompass all my points. Recently I got some adivice to show the "convex hull" of my points using geometry package (see code below). But now I need to calculate the volume of my set of points. Any advice are wellcome. Thanks in advance Miltinho Astronauta Brazil ----- require(geometry) library(rgl)

Hi, I seek to identify those points in/outside a multidimensional convex hull (geometry::convhulln). Any suggestions? Background just in case I'm going down a really wrong road: Given an observed data set with one dependent/observed variable (Y) and multiple (3 to 10) independent/design variables (X1, X2, ...) I want to increase the number of points by interpolating. I'm using

I am modeling a trend surface using trmat and want to trim the resulting matrix to the area enclosed by my real data (i.e., remove all the extrapolated areas). I was using chull and in.chull to calculate the convex hull and change all the other values created by trmat to NA. However, my real data has portions that are slightly concave so chull would give me slivers that are extrapolations from

Sorry, I did not make my question clear. Since I have a point theme with many points, some of them may clump together. the problems here are: 1. how to find clumps in a point theme? 2. the convex-hull extension I found only deal with all the points in a theme at each time? how to make each convex hull around each point clump automatically? Thanks. Xiaohua On 5/12/06, Bob Booth <bbooth

Hi. This is likely a trivial problem but have not found a solution. Imagine the following dataframe: Lat Lon x1 x2 x3 01 10 NA NA .1 01 11 NA .2 .3 01 12 .4 .5 .6 I want to generate another column that consist of the first value in each row from columns x1 to x3. That is NewColumn .1 .2 .4 Any input greatly appreciated, Thanks, Camilo Camilo Mora, Ph.D.

Hi everyone, Imagine that I have a data frame with four columns: data<- a b c d 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 I want to replace the zeros in columns a:b for NA only for the rows in which column d are zero. So a b c d NA 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 I am trying

Hi everyone, I have a data.table called "data" with many columns which I want to group by column1 using data.table, given how fast it is. The problem with looping a data.table is that data.table does not like quotations to define the column names (e.g. "col2" instead of col2). I found a way around which is to use get("col2"), which works fine but the

Hi everyone: This may be trivial but I just have not been able to figure it out. Imagine the following dataframe: a b c d TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE I would like to create a new dataframe, in which TRUE gets 0 but if false then add 1 to the cell to the left. So the results for the example above should be something like: a b c

I am running the following code (testing the use of the simplex function to determine if a point is in the convex hull of another set of points or not): >a <- c(0, 0) >A3 <-matrix(c(1,2,3,4,1,1), ncol = 2, byrow = T) >b3 <-c(1.5, 3.5, 1) >simplex(a = a, A3 = A3, b3 = b3) and the following error message appears: Error in simplex1(out1$a[1:(n + m1 + m2)], out1$A[, 1:(n + m1

Dear Friends, Here is an algorithm for finding concave hulls: http://get.dsi.uminho.pt/local/ Has anyone implemented such an algorithm in R? RSiteSearch('concave hull') didn't reveal one (I think). _____________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology Postal Address: P.O.Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400 Express Parcels

Dear R-helpers, an rgl-ers in particular, what is the easiest way to plot a section of a plane in 3D, that is given by the xyz coordinates of the outline? Suppose I have a polygon - which I know for sure is a set of coordinates on the same plane. One method I found is to use surf.tri from the geometry package, and then plot the triangles with rgl.triangles. This method is not perfect though,

Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone knows the reason why the outputs of the same reprojection in r and arcgis are different?. The magnitude of the change can be up to 40 km in the poles. Basically, I have a database of points equally separated by one degree over the globe. In ARCGIS, I am projecting the data in GCS-WGS-1984 and then reprojected it to Berhmann to ensure equal area