This function thins a dataset so that only observations that have a distance from each other greater than "dist_min" are retained.
thin_by_dist(
data,
dist_min,
coords = NULL,
dist_method = c("great_circle", "euclidean")
)An object of class sf::sf or data.frame, the same as "data".
An sf::sf data frame, or a data frame with coordinate
variables. These can be defined in coords, unless they have standard
names (see details below).
Minimum distance between points (in units appropriate for the projection, or meters for lonlat data).
A vector of length two giving the names of the "x" and "y"
coordinates, as found in data. If left to NULL, the function will try to
guess the columns based on standard names c("x", "y"), c("X","Y"),
c("longitude", "latitude"), or c("lon", "lat")
method to compute distance, either "euclidean" or "great_circle". Defaults to "great_circle", which is more accurate but takes slightly longer.
Distances are measured in the appropriate units for the projection used. In case of raw latitude and longitude (e.g. as provided in a data.frame), the crs is set to WGS84, and units are set to meters.
This function is a modified version of the algorithm in spThin, adapted to
work on sf objects.