trimming window in Foxall G-function and J-function in R spatstat I am using the Jfox function in spatstat to explore the distance of points in a point pattern to the nearest polygon between a set of points and a set of polygons in an area.
my code is something like:
Jfox(X=points, Y=win)

where points is the point pattern object, while win is the owin that represent the polygons from which I want to calculate the distance from my points.
When I run the code I, so far, always get a warning saying
In resolve.foxall.window(X, Y, W) :
  Trimming the window of X to be a subset of the Frame of Y

I tried to understand what it means by looking into the code of the resolve.foxall.window function (available here https://rdrr.io/cran/spatstat/src/R/GJfox.R) and plotting the frame of Y, along with the points and the points' window.
I obtained this plot:

where:

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*the open circle is my point (I know it's only one and probably not worth the analysis but this was actually the case that got my attention because, when trimming the window, the point was excluded from the computation and thus the absence of points in the trimmed window generated an error)

*the solid red polygons are my polygons stored in the win object.

*the black outline is the Window of the point pattern (the irregular shape is because it was an photographic collage)

*the green square is the Frame of points

*the red square (partially overlapped by the blue shape) is the Frame of win
and finally

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*the blue shape is the trimmed window resulting from the instersection of the Frame(Y) with Window(X) in the resolve.foxall.window function.

questions:

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*From this it seems that only the points falling within the trimmed Window (i.e. the blue shape) will ever be considered for the estimate of the Jfox function (and similarly the Gfox). Is this correct?

*If this 1 is correct, does this depend on the fact that for points outside the trimmed windows it is not possible to measure a distance with some feature (another polygon) that may potentially be present outside the Window of observation of the points (i.e. the black outline, my area of study)?

*Always if 1 is correct, does it means that is then impossible to calculate a Jfox or Gfox distance in the case there is only 1 polygon in the object win?

*Could it be correct to make the Frame(Y) as big as the Window(X) to include all the points in a ppp?

 A: Thanks for a well described problem. The code for Jfox (together with most of spatstat) was written by Adrian Baddeley, and I just passed your question to him. The reply was:

In order to estimate Jfox, the objects X and Y must each have a
  "window" inside which they are observed. The principle is that we must
  determine which parts of the 'observation window' did or did not
  contain the features X and Y.
If Y is a point pattern (class ppp) or line segment pattern (class
  psp), then the object's data structure includes the 'window' in which
  the points or lines were observed. So in this case, the calculations
  are performed using the 'observation window' defined as
  intersect.owin(Window(X), Window(Y)).
For convenience, the code for Jfox also allows Y to be a window (class
  owin) representing a spatial feature. The problem arises because
  spatstat does not have a data type for 'window observed within a
  window'. So by default, the observation window is taken to be
  Frame(Y), which is probably not what you intended.
Can you specify the study region for your polygons, i.e. the region of
  space W which was surveyed in order to determine the presence and
  location of your polygons? If so, then I recommend you convert your
  window Y to a logical-valued image as follows:
Z <- as.im(FALSE, W)
Z[Y] <- TRUE
  Then use Z instead of Y, i.e. calculate Jfox(X, Z).

