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Subject: Re: [R] plot map of areas
From: Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard () biostat ! ku ! dk>
Date: 2003-11-21 13:30:13
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"Pascal A. Niklaus" <Pascal.Niklaus@unibas.ch> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Given a number of points (x,y) in a plane, I'd like to plot a map of
> polygons, so that
>
> 1) each polygon contains exactly one point
> 2) the polygon defines the area for which this specific point is
> closer than any other point.
>
> It's a bit like a map of areas "influenced" by that point, and it's
> obviously a matter of intersecting the perpendicular bisectors between
> adjacent points.
>
> I believe this type of map has a name, but I can't remember how it's
> called.
Voronoi Tesselation, unless my memory is failing me (again...)
> Is there a function somewhere in a R package that may do this?
package deldir will do VTs.
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