distmap {spatstat}R Documentation

Distance Map

Description

Compute the distance map of an object. Generic.

Usage

  distmap(X, ...)

Arguments

X Any suitable dataset representing a two-dimensional object, such as a point pattern (object of class "ppp"), or a window (object of class "owin").
... Arguments passed to as.mask to control pixel resolution.

Details

The ``distance map'' of a set of points A is the function f whose value f(x) is defined for any two-dimensional location x as the shortest distance from x to A.

This function computes the distance map of the set X and returns the distance map as a pixel image.

This is generic. Methods are provided for point patterns (distmap.ppp) and windows (distmap.owin).

Value

A pixel image (object of class "im") whose grey scale values are the values of the distance map.

Author(s)

Adrian Baddeley adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~adrian/ and Rolf Turner rolf@math.unb.ca http://www.math.unb.ca/~rolf

See Also

distmap.ppp, distmap.owin

Examples

  data(cells)
  U <- distmap(cells)
  data(letterR)
  V <- distmap(letterR)
  ## Not run: 
  plot(U)
  plot(V)
  
## End(Not run)

[Package spatstat version 1.11-3 Index]