Sounds like you need a "point-in-polygon" routine to determine if the jittered point is still within the polygon.
R has several such routines. Here are two: pnt.in.poly in the SDMTools package point.in.polygon in the sp package Mathematica has several options, too. Jim -----Original Message----- From: R-sig-Geo [mailto:r-sig-geo-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Paul Lantos Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 9:30 PM To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-Geo] jitter within polygon I am trying to figure out how to randomly jitter points within an overlying polygon structure. I can easily jitter the points themselves, but I would like this to be constrained by the boundaries of polygons containing the points. This isn't for visualization - I can do that easily enough in GIS. I actually need to generate coordinates. Thanks, Paul Paul M. Lantos, MD, MS GIS, FIDSA, FAAP, FACP Contact Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics 919-684-6355 (Pediatric Infectious Diseases) Pediatric Infectious Diseases 919-681-8263 (Hospital Medicine) General Internal Medicine paul.lan...@duke.edu Duke University School of Medicine @PaulLantos Duke Global Health Institute [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo This electronic message contains information generated by the USDA solely for the intended recipients. Any unauthorized interception of this message or the use or disclosure of the information it contains may violate the law and subject the violator to civil or criminal penalties. If you believe you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
