Returns the centroid of the largest inscribed circle for each shape
st_circle_center(shp, tolerance = 0.01, epsg = 3857)An sf dataframe
positive numeric tolerance to simplify by. Default is 0.01.
numeric EPSG code to planarize to. Default is 3857.
An sf dataframe where geometry is the circle center of each shape in shp
data(towns)
st_circle_center(towns)
#> Simple feature collection with 7 features and 5 fields
#> Geometry type: POINT
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -8248447 ymin: 5041227 xmax: -8233259 ymax: 5049609
#> Projected CRS: WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
#> NAME VILLAGE TOWN MUNI ID
#> 1 Haverstraw Haverstraw Haverstraw Haverstraw Village 1
#> 2 Haverstraw Pomona Haverstraw Pomona, Haverstraw 2
#> 3 Haverstraw <NA> Haverstraw Haverstraw 3
#> 4 Haverstraw West Haverstraw Haverstraw West Haverstraw 4
#> 5 Haverstraw <NA> Haverstraw Haverstraw 5
#> 6 Stony Point <NA> Stony Point Stony Point 6
#> 7 Haverstraw <NA> Haverstraw Haverstraw 7
#> geometry
#> 1 POINT (-8234582 5041227)
#> 2 POINT (-8242964 5041868)
#> 3 POINT (-8235722 5044015)
#> 4 POINT (-8236606 5043118)
#> 5 POINT (-8248447 5043738)
#> 6 POINT (-8240068 5049609)
#> 7 POINT (-8233259 5043748)