| rdist.earth {fields} | R Documentation |
Given two sets of longitude/latitude locations, rdist.earth computes
the Great circle (geographic) distance matrix among all pairings and
rdist.earth.vec computes a vector of pairwise great circle distances
between corresponding elements of the input locations using the Haversine
method and is used in empirical variogram calculations.
rdist.earth(x1, x2, miles = TRUE, R = NULL) rdist.earth.vec(x1, x2, miles = TRUE, R = NULL)
x1 |
Matrix of first set of lon/lat coordinates first column is the longitudes and second is the latitudes. |
x2 |
Matrix of second set of lon/lat coordinates first column is the longitudes and second is the latitudes. If missing x1 is used. |
miles |
If true distances are in statute miles if false distances in kilometers. |
R |
Radius to use for sphere to find spherical distances. If NULL the radius is either in miles or kilometers depending on the values of the miles argument. If R=1 then distances are of course in radians. |
Surprisingly the distance matrix is computed efficiently in R by dot products of the direction cosines. Thanks to Qing Yang for pointing this out a long time ago.
The great circle distance matrix if nrow(x1)=m and nrow( x2)=n then the returned matrix will be mXn.
Doug Nychka, John Paige
rdist, stationary.cov, fields.rdist.near
data(ozone2) out<- rdist.earth ( ozone2$lon.lat) #out is a 153X153 distance matrix upper<- col(out)> row( out) # histogram of all pairwise distances. hist( out[upper]) #get pairwise distances between first 10 and second 10 lon/lat points x1 = ozone2$lon.lat[1:10,] x2 = ozone2$lon.lat[11:20,] dists = rdist.earth.vec(x1, x2) print(dists)