Support for RandomRegions?

[hmswaffles]

Hello,

I found the "RandomRegions" function in the documentation for the pre-2018 version of pysal. I'm looking to do some regionalization-based monte-carlo simulations. RandomRegions looks like it would have been perfect for my use case, as I need to be able to specify the number of regions and their contiguity. Is there a way to do this in spopt, other than use the ward clustering algorithm over a randomly created data feature? And if not, are there plans to support it?

[sjsrey]

Thanks for your question. We have not yet ported the Random Regions code over to spopt. Certainly you could use randomly created data and one of the spatially constrained methods to generate the regions.

I've added an issue to port RandomRegions over, as it would be useful to have that functionality in spopt. #150

[sjsrey]

Added in #150