Also
spDists
spDistsN1 Euclidean or Great Circle distance between points
In the sp package.
(and in my personal opinion, the sp package would be a good place to start,
since its part of a group of packages I view as Rs core packages for working
with spatial data)
-Don
On 11/19/10 5:17 AM, "David Winsemius" <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Lily_stats wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know a way of calculating the distance between 2
> points when
> I already have the longitude and latitude of the points.
>
> For example :
>
> Point 1 : 52° 9'54.00"N 4°25'8.40"E
> Point 2 : 52°27'46.80"N 4°33'18.00"E
>
> Distance between point 1 and point in km ....
>
> Is there any functions already available for this ?
Searching on: distance points longitude latitude
gdist {Imap} Geodesic distance (great circle distance) between points
Ellipsoidal.Distance {GEOmap} Ellipsoidal Distance
deg.dist {fossil} Haversine Distance Formula
distaz {RSEIS} Distance and Azimuth from two points
distaz {GEOmap} Distance and Azimuth from two points (# one probably
borrowed from the other)
AlongGreat {RFOC} Get Points Along Great Circle
distAB {clim.pact} Distance between two points on Earth
>
> Any help will be much appreciated!
Suggest you learn to search.
--
Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
925 423-1062
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