Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-13 Thread Roger Bivand
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Markus Neteler wrote: > (cc grass user list) > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:43:35PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:50:05PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Yilin Liu wrote: > > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > > > Any way to

Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-13 Thread Markus Neteler
(cc grass user list) On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:43:35PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:50:05PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Yilin Liu wrote: > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > Any way to get the length of common boundaries shared by neighbouring > >

Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-12 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:50:05PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Yilin Liu wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Any way to get the length of common boundaries shared by neighbouring > > counties in a map in R? > > > > The short answer is no. The R polygon objects do not have topol

Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Sumner
Ah! Thanks - it makes heaps of sense. I'd had inklings but you've put it all together for me. Now I get why graph theory is so important . . . Cheers, Mike. ___ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
Michael Sumner wrote: > Hello, could you expand on what you mean by "topology" in this context? > I assume it means that any area/polygon object in a given set is a > subdivision of the plane - i.e. no "overlaps"? Since, if that were true > of the dataset then "common shared boundaries" is someth

Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Sumner
>> Dear all, >> >> Any way to get the length of common boundaries shared by neighbouring >> counties in a map in R? >> Roger Bivand said: >The short answer is no. The R polygon objects do not have topology. Hello, could you expand on what you mean by "topology" in this context? I assume it

Re: [R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-11 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Yilin Liu wrote: > Dear all, > > Any way to get the length of common boundaries shared by neighbouring > counties in a map in R? > The short answer is no. The R polygon objects do not have topology. The longer answer is that if you have e00 or ArcInfo binary vector layers

[R-sig-Geo] The length of common boundaries

2005-10-11 Thread Yilin Liu
Dear all, Any way to get the length of common boundaries shared by neighbouring counties in a map in R? Yilin ___ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo