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finalDirection

Final direction

Description

Get the final direction (bearing) when arriving at p2 after starting from p1 and following the shortest path on an ellipsoid (following a geodetic) or on a sphere (following a great circle).

Usage

finalBearing(p1, p2, a=6378137, f=1/298.257223563, sphere=FALSE)

Arguments

`p1`	longitude/latitude of point(s). Can be a vector of two numbers, a matrix of 2 columns (first column is longitude, second column is latitude) or a SpatialPoints* object
`p2`	as above
`a`	major (equatorial) radius of the ellipsoid. The default value is for WGS84
`f`	ellipsoid flattening. The default value is for WGS84
`sphere`	logical. If `TRUE`, the bearing is computed for a sphere, instead of for an ellipsoid

Value

A vector of directions (bearings) in degrees

Author(s)

This function calls GeographicLib code by C.F.F. Karney

References

C.F.F. Karney, 2013. Algorithms for geodesics, J. Geodesy 87: 43-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-012-0578-z. Addenda: http://geographiclib.sf.net/geod-addenda.html. Also see http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/

Examples

bearing(c(10,10),c(20,20))
finalBearing(c(10,10),c(20,20))

geosphere

Spherical Trigonometry

v1.5-10

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Robert J. Hijmans [cre, aut], Ed Williams [ctb], Chris Vennes [ctb]

Initial release

2019-05-25