R: Distance from points

distanceFromPoints {raster} | R Documentation

## Distance from points

### Description

The function calculates the distance from a set of points to all cells of a Raster* object.

The distance unit is in meters if the coordinate reference system (crs) of the Raster* object is (`+proj=longlat`) or assumed to be if the crs is `NA`. In all other cases it is in the units defined by the crs (which typically is meters).

### Usage

    distanceFromPoints(object, xy, filename='', ...)

### Arguments

`object` | Raster object
`xy` | matrix of x and y coordinates, or a SpatialPoints* object.
`filename` | character. Optional filename for the output RasterLayer
`...` | Additional arguments as for `writeRaster`

### Details

Distances for `longlat` data are computed on the WGS84 spheroid using GeographicLib (Karney, 2013)

### Value

RasterLayer

### References

C.F.F. Karney, 2013. Algorithms for geodesics, J. Geodesy 87: 43-55. doi: 10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z.

### See Also

`crs`, `distance`, `gridDistance`, `pointDistance`

### Examples

    r <- raster(ncol=36,nrow=18)
    xy <- c(0,0)
    d1 <- distanceFromPoints(r, xy)
    crs(r) = '+proj=utm +zone=12 +datum=WGS84'
    d2 <- distanceFromPoints(r, xy)
    par(mfrow=c(1,2))
    plot(d1)
    plot(d2)

[Package raster version 3.4-13 Index]