[GRASS-stats] Nearest neighbour distance distribution but between polygons

[Edzer Pebesma]

In R: gDistance in package rgeos.

On 05/07/2012 02:07 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have the following (presumibly simple?) question:
> 
> I have a certain number of patches (islands) in a landscape of
> which I need to know the nearest neighbour distance. As the problem
> is related to dispersal, I would need to know the actual shortest
> distance between the actual polygons and not only the centroids. Is
> there an easy way to obtain these in R or in GRASS? I am only aware
> of nearest neighbour distance between points.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rainer
> 
> 
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