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geosphere (version 1.0.0)

greatCircle: Great circle

Description

Get points on a great circle as defined by the shortest distance between two specified points

Usage

greatCircle(p1, p2, n=360)

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
n
The requested number of points on the Great Circle

Value

  • a matrix of points

References

http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#Int

Examples

Run this code
greatCircle(c(5,52), c(-120,37), n=36)

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