car2sph {sphereplot}

Transforms 3D cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates

Description

Transforms 3D cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates. The user can choose to return the spherical coordinates in degrees or radians.

Usage

car2sph(x, y, z, deg = TRUE)

Arguments

x

x values, can also contain a matrix of x, y and z (in that order).

y

y values.

z

z values

deg

Should degrees be returned (default) or radians.

Details

This is a low level function that is used for plot transformations.

Value

A data.frame is returned containing the columns long (longitude), lat (latitude) and radius.

Author(s)

Aaron Robotham

See Also

rgl.sphgrid,rgl.sphcirc,rgl.sphpoints,rgl.sphtext,rgl.sphsun,rgl.sphMW,pointsphere,sph2car

Examples

print(car2sph(x=1,y=1,z=0,deg=TRUE))