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geosphere (version 1.0.0)

finalBearing: Final bearing

Description

Get the final bearing when arriving at point2 after starting from p1 and following the shortest path (a great circle).

Usage

finalBearing(p1, p2)

Arguments

p1
longitude/latitude of point(s), in degrees; can be a vector of two numbers, a matrix of 2 columns (first one is longitude, second is latitude) or a spatialPoints* object
p2
as above. Should have same length as p1, or a single point (or vice versa when p1 is a single point

Value

  • A bearing in degrees

References

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html http://williams.best.vwh.net/ftp/avsig/avform.txt

See Also

bearing

Examples

Run this code
bearing(c(0,0),c(90,90))
finalBearing(c(0,0),c(90,90))

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