Iterative Spatial Regrouping of Administrative Units by Attributive Affinity

Evaluates the statistical coherence of existing administrative partitions (e.g. inter-municipal groupings, districts) by identifying spatial units whose attributive profile is more similar to a neighbouring group than to their own. Border units are iteratively reassigned to the group they are most affine with, based on Euclidean or Mahalanobis distance computed on user-supplied numeric variables, with optional per-variable weighting and standardisation. Spatial contiguity is enforced throughout: isolated candidates are reintegrated into their original group, disconnected fragments are resolved, and empty groups are restored. Convergence is monitored via an eta-squared cohesion criterion. The resulting partition can be compared to the original administrative delineation using multilevel models, providing a quantitative measure of boundary inefficiency.


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install.packages("spatialRegroup")

0.1.0 by Nicolas Ausello, 5 months ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/spatialRegroup


Authors: Nicolas Ausello [aut, cre] (ORCID:


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports dplyr, sf, spdep, igraph, rlang


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