[R] Can I calculate the area of a polygon?

[Andreas Kretschmer,,,]

am  Sun, dem 19.12.2004, um 13:40:32 -0000 mailte Ted Harding folgendes:
> Not sure what you mean by "the installed plr - Language", but for

The Database-System PostgreSQL is ready to extend with external
features. As example: pl/r is a procedural language. So can I share data
between the database and R.

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| Chapter 1. Overview
|
|    PL/R is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write
|    PostgreSQL functions and triggers in the [6]R programming language.
|    PL/R offers most (if not all) of the capabilities a function writer
|    has in the R language.
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> calculating areas og polygons you may find the following function
> useful.
> Example based on the coordinates ((0,0),(0,2),(2,2),(3,3),(5,0))
> you give above.
> 
> Let X be the matrix of the coordinates:
> 
>   > X
>        [,1] [,2]
>   [1,]    0    0
>   [2,]    0    2
>   [3,]    2    2
>   [4,]    3    3
>   [5,]    5    0
> 
> 
> Function "area":
> 
>   area<-function(X){
>     X<-rbind(X,X[1,])
>     x<-X[,1]; y<-X[,2]; lx<-length(x)
>     -sum((x[2:lx]-x[1:lx-1])*(y[2:lx]+y[1:lx-1]))/2
>   }
> 
>   > area(X)
>   [1] -9.5

Danke, Merci, thank you.

> Hoping this helps,

Yes.


Regards, Andreas
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