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Polygon Areas: Area of Each Polygon

Description

Given a set of polygons, returns the area of each polygon.

Usage

poly.areas(polys)

Value

A list of areas of the same length as the number of polygons in polys.

Arguments

polys

A SpatialPolygons or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame or sf -POLYGON or - MULTIPOLYGON object.

Author

Chris Brunsdon, Binbin Lu

Examples

Run this code
# Data for New Haven to use in example
data(newhaven)
# What is the area each census block?
poly.areas(blocks)

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