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greatCircleDistanceKm: Great Circle Distance In Kilometers

Description

Gives the "great circle" or "haversine" distance between pairs of lat/lng coordinates in kilometers.

Usage

greatCircleDistanceKm(aLat, aLng, bLat, bLng)

Value

numeric vector giving the great circle distance in kilometres

Arguments

aLat

vector of latitude cooridnates (from)

aLng

vector of longitude coordinates (from)

bLat

vector of latitude coordinates (to)

bLng

vector of longitude coordinates (to)

Examples

Run this code

greatCircleDistanceKm(
  aLat = c(-37.820197)
  , aLng = c(144.983324)
  , bLat = c(-37.818476)
  , bLng = c(144.967354)
)

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