oce (version 0.9-18)

formatPosition: Geographical position in degrees and minutes

Description

Format geographical positions to degrees, minutes, and hemispheres

Usage

formatPosition(latlon, isLat=TRUE, type=c("list", "string", "expression"), showHemi=TRUE)

Arguments

latlon

a vector of latitudes or longitudes

isLat

a boolean that indicates whether the quantity is latitude or longitude

type

a string indicating the type of return value (see below)

showHemi

a boolean that indicates whether to indicate the hemisphere

Value

• A list containing degrees, minutes, seconds, and hemispheres, or a vector of strings or (broken) a vector of expressions.

Details

This function is in an early stage of development.

Examples

library(oce)
formatPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600)
formatPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600, type="string")