R: Extract a list of triangle areas from a triangulation object.

area {interp} | R Documentation

## Extract a list of triangle areas from a triangulation object.

### Description

This function returns a list containing the areas of each triangle of a triangulation object created by `tri.mesh`.

### Usage

    area(tri.obj)

### Arguments

`tri.obj` | object of class `triSht`

### Details

This function acesses the `cclist` component of a triangulation object returned by `tri.mesh` and extracts the areas of the triangles contained in this triangulation.

### Value

A vector containing the area values.

### Author(s)

Albrecht Gebhardt <albrecht.gebhardt@aau.at>, Roger Bivand <roger.bivand@nhh.no>

### See Also

`triSht`, `triangles`, `arcs`

### Examples

    data(franke)
    tr <- tri.mesh(franke$ds3)
    area(tr)

[Package interp version 1.0-33 Index]