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celestial (version 1.5.8)

sph2car: Transforms 3D spherical coordinates to cartesian coordinates

Description

Transforms 3D spherical coordinates to cartesian coordinates. The user can choose to input the spherical coordinates in degrees or radians.

Usage

sph2car(long, lat, radius = 1, deg = TRUE)

Value

A data.frame is returned containing the columns x, y and z.

Arguments

long

Longitude values, can also contain a matrix of long, lat and radius (in that order).

lat

Latitude values.

radius

Radius values.

deg

Specifies if input is in degrees (default) or radians.

Author

Aaron Robotham

Details

This is a low level function that is used for plot transformations.

See Also

coordmatch

Examples

Run this code
print(sph2car(45,0,sqrt(2),deg=TRUE))

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