st_force_polygon_cw {lwgeom}

Force a POLYGON or MULTIPOLYGON to be clockwise

Description

Check if a POLYGON or MULTIPOLYGON is clockwise, and if not make it so. According to the 'Right-hand-rule', outer rings should be clockwise, and inner holes should be counter-clockwise

Usage

st_force_polygon_cw(x)

Arguments

x

object with polygon geometries

Value

object of the same class as x

Examples

library(sf)
polys <- st_sf(cw = c(FALSE, TRUE), 
               st_as_sfc(c('POLYGON ((0 0, 1 0, 1 1, 0 0))', 
                           'POLYGON ((1 1, 2 2, 2 1, 1 1))')))

st_force_polygon_cw(polys)
st_force_polygon_cw(st_geometry(polys))
st_force_polygon_cw(st_geometry(polys)[[1]])