| formatPosition {oce} | R Documentation |
Format Geographical Position in Degrees and Minutes
Description
Format geographical positions to degrees, minutes, and hemispheres
Usage
formatPosition(
latlon,
isLat = TRUE,
type = c("list", "string", "expression"),
showHemi = TRUE
)
Arguments
latlon |
a vector of latitudes or longitudes |
isLat |
a boolean that indicates whether the quantity is latitude or longitude |
type |
a string indicating the type of return value (see below) |
showHemi |
a boolean that indicates whether to indicate the hemisphere |
Value
A list containing degrees, minutes, seconds,
and hemispheres, or a vector of strings or (broken) a vector of
expressions.
Author(s)
Dan Kelley
See Also
Other functions related to maps:
lonlat2map(),
lonlat2utm(),
map2lonlat(),
mapArrows(),
mapAxis(),
mapContour(),
mapCoordinateSystem(),
mapDirectionField(),
mapGrid(),
mapImage(),
mapLines(),
mapLocator(),
mapLongitudeLatitudeXY(),
mapPlot(),
mapPoints(),
mapPolygon(),
mapScalebar(),
mapText(),
mapTissot(),
oceCRS(),
shiftLongitude(),
usrLonLat(),
utm2lonlat()
Examples
library(oce)
formatPosition(10 + 1:10 / 60 + 2.8 / 3600)
formatPosition(10 + 1:10 / 60 + 2.8 / 3600, type = "string")