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st_force_polygon_cw

Force a POLYGON or MULTIPOLYGON to be clockwise

Description

Check if a POLYGON or MULTIPOLYGON is clockwise, and if not make it so. According to the 'Right-hand-rule', outer rings should be clockwise, and inner holes should be counter-clockwise

Usage

st_force_polygon_cw(x)

Arguments

`x`	object with polygon geometries

Value

object of the same class as x

Examples

library(sf)
polys <- st_sf(cw = c(FALSE, TRUE), 
               st_as_sfc(c('POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 0))', 
                           'POLYGON ((1 1, 2 2, 2 1, 1 1))')))

st_force_polygon_cw(polys)
st_force_polygon_cw(st_geometry(polys))
st_force_polygon_cw(st_geometry(polys)[[1]])

lwgeom

Bindings to Selected 'liblwgeom' Functions for Simple Features

v0.2-6

GPL-2

Authors

Edzer Pebesma [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8049-7069>), Colin Rundel [ctb], Andy Teucher [ctb], liblwgeom developers [cph]

Initial release