similar to: Concave Hull

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

Dear friends, Do you know how to calculate the CONCAVE hull of a set of points (2- dimensional or n-dimensional)? is that possible in R? (With a "smoothing" parameter of course). Best, -- Corrado Topi Global Climate Change & Biodiversity Indicators Area 18,Department of Biology University of York, York, YO10 5YW, UK Phone: + 44 (0) 1904 328645, E-mail: ct529 at york.ac.uk

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, 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 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 R-helpers, I wonder if you can give me advice about the best way to use help(). (1) If I type ?normal because I forgot the name dnorm() I get a long list of relevant pages. Getting to right page is laborious. (2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also get a list of pages. Advice? It seems to me that if the output of help() listed base functions first, it

Dear Friends, require(cluster) x <- rbind(cbind(rnorm(10, 0, 0.5), rnorm(10, 0, 0.5)), cbind(rnorm(15, 5, 0.5), rnorm(15, 5, 0.5))) plot(pp <- pam(x, 2), which.plots = 1) How can I extract the coordinates used in the plot? _____________________________ Professor Michael Kubovy University of Virginia Department of Psychology Postal Address: P.O.Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400

Dear R-helpers, I run R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) on i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 I would like to call R from Java. I downloaded SJava_0.69-0.tar.gz, and then issued the command suggested on http://www.omegahat.org/ RSJava/ : % R INSTALL -c SJava_0.69-0.tar.gz ARGUMENT 'INSTALL' __ignored__ WARNING: unknown option '-c' ARGUMENT 'SJava_0.69-0.tar.gz' __ignored__ I then

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 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

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 R-helpers, I have two data frames, op and em4: > str(op) 'data.frame': 37 obs. of 5 variables: $ m : num 0.202 0.336 0.122 0.139 0.14 ... $ lln : num 0.798 0.643 0.863 0.835 0.823 ... $ rrn : num 0.789 0.702 0.894 0.895 0.923 ... $ asym2: num 0.177 0.304 0.108 0.187 0.274 ... $ asym3: num 0.0755 0.0975 0.0818 0.0651 0.13 ... > str(rownames(op)) chr

Hi All, I am plotting vertical lines using xyplot in lattice and type="h". It works well, but the problem is that the tops of the lines are convex and the bottoms are concave. Is there a way to flatten the tops and bottoms? Here's my code: Source<-matrix(1:30,10,3) colnames(Source)<-c("x","y1","y2") Source<-data.frame(Source) xyplot(y2+y1~x,

Dear R, I have a covariates matrix with 10 observations, e.g. > X <- matrix(rnorm(50), 10, 5) > X [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 0.24857135 0.30880745 -1.44118657 1.10229027 1.0526010 [2,] 1.24316806 0.36275370 -0.40096866 -0.24387888 -1.5324384 [3,] -0.33504014 0.42996246 0.03902479 -0.84778875 -2.4754644 [4,] 0.06710229 1.01950917

A newbie question: I'm trying to decide whether to run a maximum likelihood estimation in R or Stata and am wondering if the R mle routine is reasonably robust. I'm fairly certain that, with this data, in Stata I would get a lot of complaints about non-concave functions and unproductive steps attempted, but would eventually have a successful ML estimate. I believe that, with the

Hi R-users, Does R has a topic on newton's method? Thank you for the info.

Hi guys I have data that contains the variances vt of the yields of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,10, 20 year bonds. Assuming the Hull-White model for the yield of a t-year zero-coupon bond, I have to estimate the ? of the Hull-White model using nonlinear least squares and give a 95% con?dence interval for each parameter. Please can you guys tell how to find out ? using R. Any suggestion regarding what functions

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

Hi all, I have been looking for means of add a contour around some points in a scatterplot as a means of representing the center of density for of the data. I'm imagining something like a 95% confidence estimate drawn around the data. So far I have found some code for drawing polygons around the data. These look nice, but in some cases the polygons are strongly influenced by outlying points.

Hi everyone, Using a simulation, I have to find what are the probabilities that, in a square region, the convex hull is a triangle, using the "chull" function. However, I have a hard time with the chull function, i did not see many examples in which the chull function is used. I searched a long time on google, but I did not find nothing. So, if anyone can help, Thanks!