R: do point(s) fall in a given polygon?

point.in.polygon {sp} | R Documentation

## do point(s) fall in a given polygon?

### Description

verifies for one or more points whether they fall in a given polygon

### Usage

    point.in.polygon(point.x, point.y, pol.x, pol.y, mode.checked=FALSE)

### Arguments

`point.x` | numerical array of x-coordinates of points
`point.y` | numerical array of y-coordinates of points
`pol.x` | numerical array of x-coordinates of polygon
`pol.y` | numerical array of y-coordinates of polygon
`mode.checked` | default FALSE, used internally to save time when all the other argument are known to be of storage mode double

### Value

integer array; values are: 0: point is strictly exterior to pol; 1: point is strictly interior to pol; 2: point lies on the relative interior of an edge of pol; 3: point is a vertex of pol.

### References

Uses the C function InPoly(). InPoly is Copyright (c) 1998 by Joseph O'Rourke. It may be freely redistributed in its entirety provided that this copyright notice is not removed.

### Examples

    # open polygon:
    point.in.polygon(1:10,1:10,c(3,5,5,3),c(3,3,5,5))
    # closed polygon:
    point.in.polygon(1:10,rep(4,10),c(3,5,5,3,3),c(3,3,5,5,3))

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