swaRm (version 0.6.0)

nnd: Nearest Neihgbor Distance

Description

Given the locations of different objects, this function determines the distance of the nearest neighboring object to each object.

Usage

nnd(x, y, geo = FALSE)

Value

A vector of the same length as x and y representing the distance to the nearest neighboring object for each object.

Arguments

x

A vector of x (or longitude) coordinates.

y

A vector of y (or latitude) coordinates.

geo

A logical value indicating whether the locations are defined by geographic coordinates (pairs of longitude/latitude values). Default: FALSE.

Author

Simon Garnier,

See Also

nn

Examples

x <- rnorm(25)
y <- rnorm(25, sd = 3)
id <- 1:25
nnd(x, y)