[R] calculate spatial distance

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 20:46:29 CET 2007


Check out rdist.earth in the fields package.

On Oct 30, 2007 11:49 AM,  <robert.ptacnik at niva.no> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a set of locations defined by longitude and latitude (in degrees),
> and want to calculate the spatial (or geographic) distance among all
> locations.
> I did not find such a function in the spatial-related packages. (I *cannot*
> use 'dist', as I have geographic, not cartesian coordinates).
> thanks!
> Robert
>
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