R: Pretty lat/lon in deg, min, sec

prettyPosition {oce} | R Documentation

## Pretty lat/lon in deg, min, sec

### Description

Round a geographical positions in degrees, minutes, and seconds Depending on the range of values in `x`, rounding is done to degrees, half-degrees, minutes, etc.

### Usage

    prettyPosition(x, debug = getOption("oceDebug"))

### Arguments

`x` | a series of one or more values of a latitude or longitude, in decimal degrees
`debug` | set to a positive value to get debugging information during processing.

### Value

A vector of numbers that will yield good axis labels if `formatPosition()` is used.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley

### Examples

    library(oce)
    formatPosition(prettyPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600))

[Package oce version 1.7-2 Index]