misc-gLength: Length of Geometry

In rgeos: Interface to Geometry Engine - Open Source ('GEOS')

Length of Geometry

Description

Calculates the length of the given geometry.

Usage

	gLength(spgeom, byid=FALSE)

Arguments

spgeom	sp object as defined in package sp
byid	Logical determining if the function should be applied across subgeometries (TRUE) or the entire object (FALSE)

Value

Returns the length of the geometry in the units of the current projection. By definition [MULTI]POINTs have a length of 0. The length of POLYGONs is the sum of the length of their shell and their hole(s).

Author(s)

Roger Bivand & Colin Rundel

See Also

gArea

Examples

gLength(readWKT("POINT(1 1)"))

gLength(readWKT("LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,2 2)"))
gLength(readWKT("LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,2 0,3 1)"))

gLength(readWKT("POLYGON((0 0,3 0,3 3,0 3,0 0))"))
gLength(readWKT("POLYGON((0 0,3 0,3 3,0 3,0 0),(1 1,2 1,2 2,1 2,1 1))"))

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