Re: [R] Calculating distance between spatial points

2009-08-02 Thread Nicolas Korber
Hello, to call each variable separately, you can coerce your sp object back to a dataframe. The code below should to the job: DF.utm <- as.data.frame(SP.utm) long.diff<-diff(DF.utm$Long) Nicolas Tim Clark wrote: > > > Dear List, > > I am trying to determine the speed an animal is traveling

Re: [R] Calculating distance between spatial points

2009-06-26 Thread Ian Fiske
If your goal is to get the distance between geographic points, you might try computing the distance along the "great circle arc" and forget about projection. Several packages have functions that do this. See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/144546.html. hope that helps, Ian

[R] Calculating distance between spatial points

2009-06-25 Thread Tim Clark
Dear List, I am trying to determine the speed an animal is traveling on each leg of a track. My data is in longitude and latitude, so I am using the package rgdal to convert it into a spatial points data frame and transform it to UTM. I would then like to find the difference between successi