formatPosition {oce} | R Documentation |
Format geographical positions to degrees, minutes, and hemispheres
formatPosition(latlon, isLat = TRUE, type = c("list", "string", "expression"), showHemi = TRUE)
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 |
A list containing degrees
, minutes
, seconds
,
and hemispheres
, or a vector of strings or (broken) a vector of
expressions.
Dan Kelley
library(oce) formatPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600) formatPosition(10+1:10/60+2.8/3600, type="string")