[R] convex hulls

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Does anybody know if there are functions to:
> 
> 1. Define a convex hull on a space with more
> than 2 dimensions? chull just works for a plane.

That is a lot harder problem in computational geometry. Look at some
code called `hull' on netlib for the only public implementation I know of.

> 2. Numerically select elements within a given complex
> hull.

That is not too hard. You have the extreme points in clockwise (or
counter-clockwise, I forget) order. Just take the lines joining successive
pairs, and test if the point you want to test is to the right of all of
them.  I wrote code to do that when testing chull, but I suspect it would
take me longer to find it that for you to re-write it.

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