[R] Simple coordinate transformations

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 14:57:05 CET 2011


On 11-11-08 7:24 AM, Matthew Young wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to do some simple coordinate transforms between cartesian,
> cylindrical and spherical coordinates.  I can't find any built in
> functions or packages to do this, is this because they do not exist?
> Obviously I can write my own code, but don't want to re-invent the wheel
> if I can avoid it.

There are several contributed packages that do at least spherical 
coordinates.  Try

RSiteSearch("spherical coordinates")

to find them.

Duncan Murdoch



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