As proposed by Zunic and Rosin (see below). May need some testing/review.
Source
Zunic J, Rosin PL. 2003. Rectilinearity measurements for polygons. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 25: 1193-1200.
Note
due to the laborious nature of the algorithm (in nb.pts^2), and of its implementation, it may be very long to compute.
Examples
bot[1] %>%
coo_sample(32) %>% # for speed sake only
coo_rectilinearity
#> [1] 0.3539899
bot %>%
slice(1:3) %>% coo_sample(32) %>% # for speed sake only
coo_rectilinearity
#> $brahma
#> [1] 0.3539899
#>
#> $caney
#> [1] 0.3751378
#>
#> $chimay
#> [1] 0.3597856
#>
