Please see Bivand, R. and Gebhardt, A. 2000 Implementing functions for spatial statistical analysis using the R language. Journal of Geographical Systems, 2, 307-317. And see http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html, which is dedicated R page for spatial analysis in R.

I think ArcGIS or QuantumGIS could be better and easier tools for you.

In addition QGIS is free to use: http://www.qgis.org/en/site/

The gArea() function in the rgeos library does this (see http://127.0.0.1:18944/library/rgeos/html/gArea.html). Getting your polygon into R can be tricky, however.

hi Yichun,

check the following code

#########R-code###########

## load rgdal package

library(rgdal)

## load your polygone shapefile

dsn

library(rgeos)

gArea()

define a polygon instance from the superclass 'sp' - the easiest way to do this is by designing a char string that the function readWKT (from rgeos) can use to create the instance, typically something like "POLYGON((

It is definitely possible in qgis..by adding geometry columns to the existing shape file..Once the area and perimeter attributes are added, you could save it into the existing shape file and export it into R and use the area of the underlying polygons

This is my (straightforward) solution to calculating the area of hysteresis loops from cyclic testing using the R package. My Stress and Strain data (for an individual loop) were in a dataframe called 'DF'.

#to calculate the loop area

install.packages("geometry")

library(geometry)

polyarea(DF$Strain, DF$Stress)

Hope this helps others into the future.

Another possibility would be using the "area()" function of the package "raster".

I think that SIG sofware will be more adapted for this polygon area calculation

How to calculate the polygon perimeter using R

The sf (simple features) package is also good for this (in conjuction with the lwgeom package). You can use the function st_area(x) to calculate the area. x

raster::area()

Works for polygon but is different than other algorithms

package geometry has a function for the polygon area

geometry::polyarea(x, y)

also you can use this that is my own

polygon_area