On Sep 30, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Dan Bebber wrote:

> I have spatial data on a sphere (the Earth) for which I would like to run an 
> gls model assuming that the errors are autcorrelated, i.e. including a 
> corSpatial correlation in the model specification.
> 
> In this case the distance metric should be calculated on the sphere, 
> therefore metric =  "euclidean" in (for example) corSpher would be incorrect.
> 
> I would be grateful for help on how to write a new distance metric for the 
> corSpatial function.
> I believe there are several ways that distances on a sphere can be calculated 
> in R, for example the "distMeeus" function in the geosphere library. However, 
> I have no idea how to write this into a corSpatial function.
> 
> The aim is to end up with a metric  = "sphere" option that calculates great 
> circle distances between points using latitude and longitude.

LMCTVTFY: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Spatial.html

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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA

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