area {OasisR} | R Documentation |
A function to compute the spatial units' areas
Description
The function is based on sf package and can be used with a shape file or an R spatial object (class sf, sfc or sfg).
Usage
area(spatobj = NULL, folder = NULL, shape = NULL)
Arguments
spatobj |
a spatial object (class sf, sfc or sfg) containing geographic information |
folder |
a character vector with the folder (directory) name indicating where the shapefile with the geographic information is located. |
shape |
a character vector with the name of the shapefile (without the .shp extension) which contains the geographic information |
Value
A vector containing the areas of spatial units
See Also
Other spatial functions used for segregation indices
computation: contig
, perimeter
,
distance
, distcenter
,
boundaries
Examples
area(segdata)
foldername <- system.file('extdata', package = 'OasisR')
shapename <- 'segdata'
area(folder = foldername, shape = shapename)
[Package OasisR version 3.1.1 Index]