areapoly: Signed Area of Polygon

Description Usage Arguments Value Note References

Description

Calculate the area of a polygon and its boundary direction.

Usage

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Arguments

poly

matrix containing the x,y-coordinates of the vertices of the polygon boundary.

Value

area

positive numeric, the area of the polygon.

sign

integer, 1 if the polygon orientation is anticlockwise, -1 otherwise.

poly

copy of the passed argument poly.

Note

This function is provided here so that users do not need to load other packages, as it is not available in the base R packages.

References

Joseph O'Rourke, Computational Geometry in C (2nd Edition), Cambridge University Press, 2000 edition.


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