nearestPointOnSegment

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Get the nearest point on a segment to a given point

This function calculates the coordinates of and the distance to the nearest point on a segment to a given point. This function does not work with geographic coordinates.

Keywords
spatial
Usage
nearestPointOnSegment(s, p)
Arguments
s

A matrix representing the coordinates of the segment. The matrix has 2x2 dimension where each row represents one of the end points.

p

A vector representing the X and Y coordinates of the point.

Value

A vector with three numeric values representing X and Y coordinates of the nearest point on a segment to a given point as well as the distance between both points.

References

The function was ported to R based on this code: http://pastebin.com/n9rUuGRh

nearestPointOnLine, snapPointsToLines

Aliases
• nearestPointOnSegment
Examples
# NOT RUN {
segment = cbind(c(1,2),c(1,1.5))
point = c(1.2,1.5)
nearestPointOnSegment(segment, point)
# }

Documentation reproduced from package maptools, version 0.9-9, License: GPL (>= 2)

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