bearingRhumb

Bearing (direction of travel; true course) along a rhumb line (loxodrome) between two points.

 spatial 

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations.

Robert Hijmans

geosphere

Spherical Trigonometry

Robert J. Hijmans

Charles Karney

Ed Williams

Chris Vennes

bearingRhumb function

<dl> <dt>p1</dt>
<dd>longitude/latitude of point(s). Can be a vector of two numbers, a matrix of 2 columns (first one is longitude, second is latitude) or a SpatialPoints* object</dd> <dt>p2</dt>
<dd>as above</dd></dl>

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Chris Veness and Robert Hijmans, based on formulae by Ed Williams

Author

Rhumbline direction — bearingRhumb

<dl>

 <dt>p1</dt>
<dd>longitude/latitude of point(s). Can be a vector of two numbers, a matrix of 2 columns (first one is longitude, second is latitude) or a SpatialPoints* object</dd>

 <dt>p2</dt>
<dd>as above</dd>

</dl>

bearingRhumb: Rhumbline direction

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