Rdocumentation
powered by
Learn R Programming
⚠️
There's a newer version (1.5-20) of this package.
Take me there.
geosphere (version 1.5-1)
Spherical Trigonometry
Description
Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations.
Copy Link
Link to current version
Version
Version
1.5-20
1.5-18
1.5-14
1.5-10
1.5-7
1.5-5
1.5-1
1.4-3
1.3-13
1.3-11
1.3-8
1.2-28
1.2-27
1.2-26
1.2-25
1.2-24
1.2-23
1.2-21
1.2-19
1.2-18
1.2-15
1.2-13
1.2-10
1.2-7
1.2-4
1.2.1
1.1.2
1.0.0
Install
install.packages('geosphere')
Monthly Downloads
40,114
Version
1.5-1
License
GPL (>= 3)
Maintainer
Robert Hijmans
Last Published
December 18th, 2015
Functions in geosphere (1.5-1)
Search all functions
areaPolygon
Area of a longitude/latitude polygon
distHaversine
'Haversine' great circle distance
alongTrackDistance
Along Track Distance
gcLat
Latitude on a Great Circle
centroid
Centroid of spherical polygons
distRhumb
Distance along a rhumb line
horizon
Distance to the horizon
distGeo
Distance on an ellipsoid (the geodesic)
distVincentyEllipsoid
'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance
greatCircle
Great circle
finalBearing
Final direction
gcIntersectBearing
Intersections of two great circles
geodesic
geodesic and inverse geodesic problem
dist2gc
Cross Track Distance
wrld
World countries
onGreatCircle
Is a point on a given great circle?
distCosine
'Law of cosines' great circle distance
distm
Distance matrix
destPoint
Destination given bearing (direction) and distance
bearing
Direction of travel
antipode
Antipodes
destPointRhumb
Destination along a rhumb line
geomean
Mean location of sperhical coordinates
distMeeus
'Meeus' great circle distance
greatCircleBearing
Great circle
perimeter
Compute the perimeter of a longitude/latitude polygon
dist2Line
Distance between points and lines or the border of polygons.
makePoly
Add vertices to a polygon or line
distVincentySphere
'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance
plotArrows
Plot
gcLon
Longitude on a Great Circle
daylength
Daylength
bearingRhumb
Rhumbline direction
gcMaxLat
Highest latitude on a great circle
span
Span of polygons
intermediate
Intermediate points on a great circle (sphere)
mercator
Mercator projection
midPoint
Mid-point
randomCoordinates
Random or regularly distributed coordinates on the globe
gcIntersect
Intersections of two great circles
geosphere-package
Geosphere