All longitudes < 0 are added to 360, to avoid for instance parts of Alaska
being represented on the far left and right of a plot because they have
values straddling 180 degrees. In general, using a projected
coordinate reference system is to be preferred, but this method permits a
geographical coordinate reference system to be used. This is the sf
equivalent of recenter
in the sp package and
ST_ShiftLongitude in PostGIS.
st_shift_longitude(x)# S3 method for sfc
st_shift_longitude(x, ...)
# S3 method for sf
st_shift_longitude(x, ...)
object of class sf or sfc
ignored
## sfc
pt1 = st_point(c(-170, 50))
pt2 = st_point(c(170, 50))
(sfc = st_sfc(pt1, pt2))
sfc = st_set_crs(sfc, 4326)
st_shift_longitude(sfc)
## sf
d = st_as_sf(data.frame(id = 1:2, geometry = sfc))
st_shift_longitude(d)
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