aspace (version 2.5)

median_centre: Median Centre Calculator

Description

Compute the median centre from a series of point locations.

Usage

median_centre(id=1, filename="median_centre_Output.txt", 
points=activities)

Arguments

id

A unique integer to identify the median centre

filename

A string indicating the ASCII textfile where centre coordinates will be written

points

A 2-column matrix or data frame containing the set of point observations

Value

• The result is a list of terms:
• id
  Identifier for the median centre - it should be unique
• median.x
  X-coordinate of the median centre
• median.y
  Y-coordinate of the median centre

Details

This function is most powerful when used repetitively within a loop to compute multiple median centres from different datasets.

See Also

mean_centre, CMD, CF

Examples

median_centre(id=1, filename="median_centre_Output.txt", 
points=activities)