crossdist.psp {spatstat.geom}R Documentation

Pairwise distances between two different line segment patterns

Description

Computes the distances between all pairs of line segments taken from two different line segment patterns.

Usage

  ## S3 method for class 'psp'
crossdist(X, Y, ..., method="C", type="Hausdorff")

Arguments

X, Y

Line segment patterns (objects of class "psp").

...

Ignored.

method

String specifying which method of calculation to use. Values are "C" and "interpreted". Usually not specified.

type

Type of distance to be computed. Options are "Hausdorff" and "separation". Partial matching is used.

Details

This is a method for the generic function crossdist.

Given two line segment patterns, this function computes the distance from each line segment in the first pattern to each line segment in the second pattern, and returns a matrix containing these distances.

The distances between line segments are measured in one of two ways:

The argument method is not normally used. It is retained only for checking the validity of the software. If method = "interpreted" then the distances are computed using interpreted R code only. If method="C" (the default) then compiled C code is used. The C code is several times faster.

Value

A matrix whose [i,j] entry is the distance from the i-th line segment in X to the j-th line segment in Y.

Author(s)

Adrian Baddeley Adrian.Baddeley@curtin.edu.au

and Rolf Turner rolfturner@posteo.net

See Also

pairdist, nndist, Gest

Examples

   L1 <- psp(runif(5), runif(5), runif(5), runif(5), owin())
   L2 <- psp(runif(10), runif(10), runif(10), runif(10), owin())
   D <- crossdist(L1, L2)
   #result is a 5 x 10 matrix
   S <- crossdist(L1, L2, type="sep")

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