[R] GPS handling libraries or (String manipulation)

[Justin Haynes]

Wow... that is WAY better!

Thanks Gabor!

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Alaios <alaios at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I would like to ask you if R has a library that can work with different GPS formats
>>
>> For example
>> I have a string of this format
>>
>> N50° 47.513 E006° 03.985
>> and I would like to convert to GPS decimal format.
>>
>> that means for example converting the part N50° 47.513
>> to 50 + 47/60 + 513/3600.
>>
>> Is it possible to do that with R?
>> What is the name of such a library?
>>
>
> Use strapply to extract the digits and convert them to numeric
> followed by matrix multiplication to apply the formula:
>
> library(gsubfn)
> x <- "N50° 47.513"
>
> c(1, 1/60, 1/3600) %*% strapply(x, "\\d+", as.numeric, simplify = TRUE)
>
>
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