[R-sig-Geo] How to achieve the boundary of a polygon?

[Shaofei Chen]

Thank you very much. It works for me now. Previously I only looked at the
spatstat package.

Shaofei

-----Original Message-----
From: Edzer Pebesma [mailto:edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 1:09 AM
To: Shaofei Chen
Cc: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] How to achieve the boundary of a polygon?

Have you had a look at spsample in package sp?

Shaofei Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to randomly sample some points within a polygon. After reading the
bounday file to the SpatialPolygonsDataFrame, I found that I can only sample
them in the rectangular containing the polygon based on bbox.
>
> bound <- readShapePoly("bound.shp") 
> plot(bound)
> rand.points=rpoint(100,
win=as.owin(c(bound at bbox[1],bound at bbox[3],bound at bbox[2],bound at bbox[4])))
>
> Can you help me sample them inside the boundary?
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Shaofei
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