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topo-unary-gDelaunayTriangulation

Compute Delaunay triangulation between points


Description

Function to compute the Delaunay triangulation between points; only available for GEOS >= 3.4.0.

Usage

gDelaunayTriangulation(spgeom, tolerance=0.0, onlyEdges=FALSE)

Arguments

spgeom

sp points object as defined in package sp

tolerance

Numerical tolerance value to be used in triangulation

onlyEdges

Logical, default returns triangles as polygons, if TRUE, returns a SpatialLines object with a single MULTILINESTRING

Details

When onlyEdges is TRUE, the SpatialLines object may be de-merged to identify the input points that are touched by each edge, making it possible to identify spatial neighbours.

Value

Either a SpatialPolygons object or a SpatialLines object containing a single Lines object of the undirected edges in the triangulation.

Author(s)

Roger Bivand

References

Examples

if (version_GEOS0() > "3.4.0") {
library(sp)
data(meuse)
coordinates(meuse) <- c("x", "y")
plot(gDelaunayTriangulation(meuse))
points(meuse)
out <- gDelaunayTriangulation(meuse, onlyEdges=TRUE)
lns <- slot(slot(out, "lines")[[1]], "Lines")
out1 <- SpatialLines(lapply(seq(along=lns), function(i) Lines(list(lns[[i]]),
 ID=as.character(i))))
out2 <- lapply(1:length(out1), function(i) which(gTouches(meuse, out1[i],
 byid=TRUE)))
out3 <- do.call("rbind", out2)
o <- order(out3[,1], out3[,2])
out4 <- out3[o,]
out5 <- data.frame(from=out4[,1], to=out4[,2], weight=1)
head(out5)
## Not run: 
if (require(spdep)) {
class(out5) <- c("spatial.neighbour", class(out5))
attr(out5, "n") <- length(meuse)
attr(out5, "region.id") <- as.character(1:length(meuse))
nb1 <- sn2listw(out5)$neighbours
nb2 <- make.sym.nb(nb1)
}

## End(Not run)
}

rgeos

Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source ('GEOS')

v0.5-5
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Roger Bivand [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2392-6140>), Colin Rundel [aut], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Rainer Stuetz [ctb], Karl Ove Hufthammer [ctb], Patrick Giraudoux [ctb], Martin Davis [cph, ctb], Sandro Santilli [cph, ctb]
Initial release
2020-09-01

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