R: Stienen Diagram

stienen {spatstat} | R Documentation

## Stienen Diagram

### Description

Draw the Stienen diagram of a point pattern, or compute the region covered by the Stienen diagram.

### Usage

    stienen(X, ..., bg = "grey", border = list(bg = NULL))
    stienenSet(X, edge=TRUE)

### Arguments

`X` | Point pattern (object of class `"ppp"`).
`...` | Arguments passed to `plot.ppp` to control the plot.
`bg` | Fill colour for circles.
`border` | Either a list of arguments passed to `plot.ppp` to control the display of circles at the border of the diagram, or the value `FALSE` indicating that the border circles should not be plotted.
`edge` | Logical value indicating whether to include the circles at the border of the diagram.

### Details

The Stienen diagram of a point pattern (Stienen, 1982) is formed by drawing a circle around each point of the pattern, with diameter equal to the nearest-neighbour distance for that point. These circles do not overlap. If two points are nearest neighbours of each other, then the corresponding circles touch.

`stienenSet(X)` computes the union of these circles and returns it as a window (object of class `"owin"`).

`stienen(X)` generates a plot of the Stienen diagram of the point pattern `X`. By default, circles are shaded in grey if they lie inside the window of `X`, and are not shaded otherwise.

### Value

The plotting function `stienen` returns `NULL`.

The return value of `stienenSet` is a window (object of class `"owin"`).

### Author(s)

Adrian Baddeley Adrian.Baddeley@curtin.edu.au

Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz

and Ege Rubak rubak@math.aau.dk

### References

Stienen, H. (1982) Die Vergroeberung von Karbiden in reinen Eisen-Kohlenstoff Staehlen. Dissertation, RWTH Aachen.

### See Also

`nndist`, `plot.ppp`

### Examples

      Y <- stienenSet(cells)
      stienen(redwood)
      stienen(redwood, border=list(bg=NULL, lwd=2, cols="red"))

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