Re: [R] regular pentagon

2014-03-09 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz wrote:

 On 08/03/14 10:22, Yuanzhi Li wrote:
  Hello, everyone,
 
  Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular
  pentagon? Thanks in advance!

 You can easily do this using the spatstat package.


 Or with sines, cosines, and 72 degrees. Generate points in a triangle and
apply a random (0,4) integer multiple of 72 rotation

 Never mind asking us if we have any idea, do you (original poster) have
any idea?

Barry

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Re: [R] regular pentagon

2014-03-08 Thread Bert Gunter
Is this homework? We don't do homework here.

-- Bert

Oh, and my answer is yes I do.

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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Yuanzhi Li yuanzhi...@usherbrooke.ca wrote:
 Hello, everyone,

 Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular
 pentagon? Thanks in advance!

 Yuanzhi

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Re: [R] regular pentagon

2014-03-08 Thread Rolf Turner

On 08/03/14 10:22, Yuanzhi Li wrote:

Hello, everyone,

Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular
pentagon? Thanks in advance!


You can easily do this using the spatstat package.

cheers,

Rolf Turner

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[R] regular pentagon

2014-03-07 Thread Yuanzhi Li

Hello, everyone,

Do you have any idea to get a set of random points within a regular 
pentagon? Thanks in advance!


Yuanzhi

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