[R-sig-Geo] Great Circle distances in Automap, Gstat

Edzer Pebesma edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de
Thu Oct 6 09:25:33 CEST 2011


library(sp)
?is.projected
?CRS

Please note that to my knowledge (but I might be wrong) R does not have 
kriging functions with ready-to-go covariance functions that are valid 
on spherical coordinates. Of course you can write your own.

Hth,

On 10/05/2011 11:37 PM, Sandeep Patil wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am using IDW and Kriging from these two libraries and have spatial data in
> Lat/Lon
> coordinates. I am a bit confused about how to specify that i need great
> circle
> distances in my calculations. Any advice welcome
>
> Thanks
>
> Sandeep
>
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