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shipunov (version 1.17.1)

Polyarea: Area of the polygon

Description

Calculates area of polygon

Usage

Polyarea(x)

Value

Numerical vector of length 1.

Arguments

x

Polygon vertices: two-column numerical matrix or data frame

Author

Alexey Shipunov

Details

Based on vegan::summary.ordihulls().

See Also

Squares, Hulls, Ellipses

Examples

Run this code

x <- c(1:9, 8:1) # from ?polygon
y <- c(1, 2*(5:3), 2, -1, 17, 9, 8, 2:9)
Polyarea(cbind(x, y)) # numerical matrix
Polyarea(data.frame(x, y)) # numerical data frame

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