[R-sig-Geo] LL to UTM

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 3/6/07, antonio rodriguez <antonio.raju at gmail.com> wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >> I am currently using this web page to convert LL to UTM (and UTM to LL).
> >>
> >>    http://home.hiwaay.net/~taylorc/toolbox/geography/geoutm.html
> >>
> >> All my points are in zone 18.  How would I accomplish the same
> >> thing using R?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> Within GRASS there is an Addon: utm_which_zone.sh
>
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_AddOns/
>
> which it seems to accomplish this task even from a shell, just using awk
> (I have attached the file)
>

Thanks but that calculates the UTM zone.  I know the UTM zone.
I want the UTM coordinates given the lat and long.