Re: [R] Handle Gps coordinates

2013-11-12 Thread vikram ranga
Hi, You would like to have a look at library(maptools) & library(rgeos) they have amazingly lot of function for such analysis. You can also read GPS data directly in R using maptools. This question is more suitable for r-sig-geo list. On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Greg Snow <538...@gmail.co

Re: [R] Handle Gps coordinates

2013-11-12 Thread Greg Snow
I don't know of any packages specifically for gps coordinates, but more generally there are packages for spatial statistics (of which the gps coordinates would be a special case). Check the CRAN Taskviews Spatial and SpatialTemporal for descriptions of packages that will do what you ask (and a lot

[R] Handle Gps coordinates

2013-11-12 Thread Alaios
Dear all, I would like to ask you if there are any gps libraries. I would like to be able to handle them, -like calculate distances in meters between gps locations, -or find which gps location is closer to a list of gps locations. Is there something like that in R? I would like to tthank you in