ok thanks!! I would like to slice it vertically and have 3 distinct areas of equal area. So I need to chop it up into 3 areas of equal size essentially.
There is no tool to do it in QGIS!! Thanks On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Barry Rowlingson < b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Shane Carey <careys...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to divide a polygon into 3 equal areas using R? > > Yes, in an infinite number of ways. Want to narrow it down? > > Specifically, you could slice it vertically, horizontally, or at any > angle between. You could chop it into squares and reassign them (did > you want **contiguous** areas?). You could choose a point and three > radii angles that divide the polygon into 3 equal areas in an infinite > number of ways. > > The rgeos package will help you chop polygons up, and then uniroot > can find the coordinates of lines or radii of angles that chop the > polygon first into 1/3 & 2/3 then chop the 2/3 into 1/2 and 1/2, > giving you three equal pieces. > > > I cant seem to be able to do it in QGIS. > > If it can be done in R it can be done in Python and then it can be > done in QGIS... > > Barry > -- Shane [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.