[R-sig-Geo] minimum area bounding rectangles - bbox() not the solution

[Murray Richardson]

Thanks for your advice Arman.  Unfortunately bbox is just the minimum 
bounding rectangle (i.e. min and max of x and y), not the minimum area 
bounding rectangle.  I need MABR to get the short and long axes info.

I will wait for addition advice from others.

Murray

On 15/03/2011 12:53 PM, Aman Verma wrote:
> bbox in the sp package is what you are looking for.
>
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> From: r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Murray Richardson
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> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] minimum area bounding rectangles
>
> Hi R users,
>
> I would like to compute minimum area bounding rectangles for polygon
> features to extract short and long axes and azimuths of the long axes.
> Is this possible in R? I have not been able to find a way (yet).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Murray
>
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