[R] divide polygon shapefile into 3 equal areas

[Shane Carey]

ok thanks!!

I would like to slice it vertically and have 3 distinct areas of equal
area. So I need to chop it up into 3 areas of equal size essentially.

There is no tool to do it in QGIS!!

Thanks

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Shane Carey <careyshan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to divide a polygon into 3 equal areas using R?
>
>  Yes, in an infinite number of ways. Want to narrow it down?
>
>  Specifically, you could slice it vertically, horizontally, or at any
> angle between. You could chop it into squares and reassign them (did
> you want **contiguous** areas?). You could choose a point and three
> radii angles that divide the polygon into 3 equal areas in an infinite
> number of ways.
>
>  The rgeos package will help you chop polygons up, and then uniroot
> can find the coordinates of lines or radii of angles that chop the
> polygon first into 1/3 & 2/3 then chop the 2/3 into 1/2 and 1/2,
> giving you three equal pieces.
>
> > I cant seem to be able to do it in QGIS.
>
>  If it can be done in R it can be done in Python and then it can be
> done in QGIS...
>
> Barry
>



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Shane

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