[R] inout() in splancs working properly?

[Rainer Hurling]

Roger,

sorry for not recognizing you as the author of the port.


Roger Bivand wrote:
> 
> Rainer:
> 
> Thankyou for your very helpful report, showing clearly and replicably what
> the problem is: sometimes points on the convex hull are included,
> sometimes not. I agree that the issue is in ipippa.f, but am not too sure
> why (yet). I am working on a revision of splancs at the moment - can I use
> you to help test out this issue?
> 

Of course you can. I will test it with my datasets.

> (Barry - is this so far back in the past that you don't have Ken
> McElvain's C-code? Are we dealing with:
> 
> http://jedi.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/raytracer/rtn/rtnv3n4.html#art23
> 
> Does the original comment:
> 
> ">A remark: The whichquad function is not perfect. It doesn't handle
> >the boundary cases right (but as I said, that's only a problem
> >if the point lies on the polygon)."
> 
> still hold?)
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Roger
> 
> --
> Roger Bivand
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> Economics and Business Administration, Breiviksveien 40, N-5045 Bergen,
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Rainer

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