Tutorials / Delaunay, R, voronoi
Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation in R
By Nathan Yau
The deldir package by Rolf Turner makes the calculations and plotting straightforward, with a few lines of code.
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Nathan Yau is a statistician who works primarily with visualization. He earned his PhD in statistics from UCLA, is the author of two best-selling books — Data Points and Visualize This — and runs FlowingData. Introvert. Likes food. Likes beer.
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