Area covered by a point cloud with R
问题 I have a cloud of points scattered in a 2D Euclidean space. I would like to calculate the area inside the polygon linking the most extreme (=peripheral) points of the cloud. In other words, I would like to estimate the area covered by the cloud in this space. Is there a formula in R? Thanks a lot for any response Julien 回答1: This is called the convex-hull problem; R built-in chull function should do the work. To count area, you may use a formula from here. EDIT: Even better; splancs package