[R] high dimensional convex hull

Greg Jefferis jefferis at stanford.edu
Tue Dec 11 02:32:17 CET 2001


Dear Ben,

There is no R package, however you can use the program qhull available at:

    http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/qhull/

Unfortunately this site seems to be down a lot of the time.  An earlier
version of the program - which probably has all the functionality you need
is available at:

    http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/implement/qhull/implement.shtml

Assuming you can compile the software ok, you can then run it as a standard
command line application if you are in a unix environment.  David Marquette
provided me with some R code to handle calling from R - it writes out a
temporary file containing the data matrix you want to find a hull for and
then calls qhull.  Let me know if this would be of use to you.  Best wishes,

Greg.


On 12/10/01 09:16, "Ben Stapley" <b.stapley at umist.ac.uk> wrote:

> Does anyone know of a R package that will determine the convex hull of a
> high-dimensional dataset (say 4-10 dimensions).  I know chull works for
> 2D data.  
> 
> I'm neophyte to R and convex hulls so please keep it simple.
> Many thanks
> 
> Ben

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