sp (version 1.1-1)

DMS-class: Class "DMS" for degree, minute, decimal second values

Description

The class provides a container for coordinates stored as degree, minute, decimal second values.

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("DMS", ...), converted from decimal degrees using dd2dms(), or converted from character strings using char2dms().

See Also

char2dms, dd2dms

Examples

data(state)
dd2dms(state.center$x)
dd2dms(state.center$y, NS=TRUE)
as.numeric(dd2dms(state.center$y))
as(dd2dms(state.center$y, NS=TRUE), "numeric")
as.numeric.DMS(dd2dms(state.center$y))
state.center$y