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geosphere (version 1.2-10)

Spherical Trigonometry

Description

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications

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install.packages('geosphere')

Monthly Downloads

35,231

Version

1.2-10

License

GPL

Maintainer

Robert Hijmans

Last Published

August 28th, 2010

Functions in geosphere (1.2-10)

daylength

Daylength
areaPolygon

Compute the areaPolygon of a polygon
distRhumb

Distance along a rhumb line
antipode

Antipodes
distHaversine

'Haversine' great circle distance
gcIntermediate

Intermediate points on a great circle
distCosine

'Law of cosines' great circle distance
distVincentyEllipsoid

'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance
geosphere-package

Geosphere
perimeter

Compute the perimeter of a polygon
randomCoordinates

Random or regularly distributed coordinates on the globe
onGreatCircle

Is a point an a given great circle
destPoint

Destination given bearing (direction) and distance, when following a Great Circle
horizon

distance to horizon
distVincentySphere

'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
finalBearing

Final direction
makePoly

Add vertices to a polygon or line
bearing

bearing of travel
gcIntersectBearing

Intersections of two great circles
distm

Distance matrix
gcMaxLat

Highest latitude on a great circle
wrld

World countries
greatCircle

Great circle
gcLat

Latitude on a Great Circle
gcIntersect

Intersections of two great circles
gcLon

Longitude on a Great Circle
greatCircleBearing

Great circle
span

Span of polygons
bearingRhumb

Rhumbline direction
mercator

Mercator projection
distPoint2Line

Distance between points and polylines or (the border of) polygons.
centroid

centroid of polygons
destPointRhumb

Destination along a rhumb line
midPoint

Mid-point
crossTrackDistance

Cross Track Distance
plotArrows

Plot
alongTrackDistance

Along Track Distance