oce (version 1.8-0)

formatPosition: Format 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
)

Value

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

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

Author

Dan Kelley

See Also

Other functions related to maps: lonlat2map(), lonlat2utm(), map2lonlat(), mapArrows(), mapAxis(), mapContour(), mapCoordinateSystem(), mapDirectionField(), mapGrid(), mapImage(), mapLines(), mapLocator(), mapLongitudeLatitudeXY(), mapPlot(), mapPoints(), mapPolygon(), mapScalebar(), mapText(), mapTissot(), oceCRS(), shiftLongitude(), usrLonLat(), utm2lonlat()

Examples

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