R: Format Geographical Position in Degrees and Minutes

formatPosition {oce} | R Documentation

## Format Geographical Position in Degrees and Minutes

### Description

Format geographical positions to degrees, minutes, and hemispheres

### Usage

    formatPosition(
      latlon,
      isLat = TRUE,
      type = c("list", "string", "expression"),
      showHemi = TRUE
    )

### Arguments

`latlon` | a vector of latitudes or longitudes
`isLat` | a boolean that indicates whether the quantity is latitude or longitude
`type` | a string indicating the type of return value (see below)
`showHemi` | a boolean that indicates whether to indicate the hemisphere

### Value

A list containing `degrees`, `minutes`, `seconds`, and `hemispheres`, or a vector of strings or (broken) a vector of expressions.

### Author(s)

Dan Kelley

### See Also

Other functions related to maps: `lonlat2map()`, `lonlat2utm()`, `map2lonlat()`, `mapArrows()`, `mapAxis()`, `mapContour()`, `mapCoordinateSystem()`, `mapDirectionField()`, `mapGrid()`, `mapImage()`, `mapLines()`, `mapLocator()`, `mapLongitudeLatitudeXY()`, `mapPlot()`, `mapPoints()`, `mapPolygon()`, `mapScalebar()`, `mapText()`, `mapTissot()`, `oceCRS()`, `shiftLongitude()`, `usrLonLat()`, `utm2lonlat()`

### Examples

    library(oce)
    formatPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600)
    formatPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600, type="string")

[Package oce version 1.7-2 Index]