[R-sig-Geo] Finding to which Voronoi/Dirichlet a point belongs

[Adrian Baddeley]

Pierre Roudier wrote:

> >> I am trying to use the Voronoi tesselation of a point pattern to predict
> >> values of a second one. [ ...]  To do that, I have to identify, for which point of my.data.set, to which voronoi tile it belongs to.
>   

> >> Using spatstat, I can just extract to which tile belongs each point, using
> >> an ugly double loop, 
There is no need for a loop. In spatstat, if X is a point pattern and Z 
is a tessellation, then cut(X,Z) produces a marked point pattern in 
which each point of X is marked by the tile of Z which contains it. See 
help(cut.ppp)

In the special case of a Voronoi/Dirichlet tessellation, you can also 
use the fact that the tiles are determined by which of the tile centres 
is closest. Thus if X and Y are point patterns, then   
nncross(X,Y)$which   produces a vector of integers specifying which 
point of Y is nearest to each given point of X. Thus, X[i] lies in the 
tile around nncross(X,Y)$which[i].

Adrian Baddeley