[R-sig-Geo] a function to calculate distance

[Paul Hiemstra]

Mehdi Khaneboubi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am new to this list and i have a novice question.
>
> I am trying to calculate distance between two points. I have the latitude
> and longitude of those two points.
>
> I have try with the gdist() function from package Imap but it seems to be
> unsure. is there any others functions in others packages that will be able
> to do it ?
>
> best regards
>
> Mehdi Khaneboubi
>
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Hi,

Look at the spDists and spDistsN1 functions from the sp-package.

cheers,
Paul

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