geomean {geosphere} | R Documentation |
Mean location of sperhical coordinates
Description
mean location for spherical (longitude/latitude) coordinates that deals with the angularity. I.e., the mean of longitudes -179 and 178 is 179.5
Usage
geomean(xy, w)
Arguments
xy |
matrix with two columns (longitude/latitude), or a SpatialPoints or SpatialPolygons object with a longitude/latitude CRS |
w |
weights (vector of numeric values, with a length that is equal to the number of spatial features in |
Value
Ccoordinate pair (numeric)
Author(s)
Robert J. Hijmans
Examples
xy <- cbind(x=c(-179,179, 177), y=c(12,14,16))
xy
geomean(xy)
[Package geosphere version 1.5-18 Index]