edges: Extract Boundary Edges of a Window.

In spatstat.geom: Geometrical Functionality of the 'spatstat' Family

Extract Boundary Edges of a Window.

Description

Extracts the boundary edges of a window and returns them as a line segment pattern.

Usage

  edges(x, ..., window = NULL, check = FALSE) 

Arguments

x	A window (object of class "owin"), or data acceptable to as.owin, specifying the window whose boundary is to be extracted.
...	Ignored.
window	Window to contain the resulting line segments. Defaults to as.rectangle(x).
check	Logical. Whether to check the validity of the resulting segment pattern.

Details

The boundary edges of the window x will be extracted as a line segment pattern.

Value

A line segment pattern (object of class "psp").

Author(s)

\spatstatAuthors

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See Also

perimeter for calculating the total length of the boundary.

Examples

  edges(square(1))
  edges(letterR)

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