maptools: nearestPointOnLine – R documentation

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nearestPointOnLine

Get the nearest point on a line to a given point

Description

This function calculates the coordinates of the nearest point on a line to a given point. This function does not work with geographic coordinates.

Usage

nearestPointOnLine(coordsLine, coordsPoint)

Arguments

`coordsLine`	Matrix with coordinates of line vertices. Each row represents a vertex.
`coordsPoint`	A vector representing the X and Y coordinates of the point.

Value

Vector with the X and Y coordinates of the nearest point on a line to the given point.

Author(s)

German Carrillo

Examples

coordsLine = cbind(c(1,2,3),c(3,2,2))
coordsPoint = c(1.2,1.5)
nearestPointOnLine(coordsLine, coordsPoint)

maptools

Tools for Handling Spatial Objects

v1.1-1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Roger Bivand [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2392-6140>), Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Eric Archer [ctb], Adrian Baddeley [ctb], Nick Bearman [ctb], Hans-Jörg Bibiko [ctb], Steven Brey [ctb], Jonathan Callahan [ctb], German Carrillo [ctb], Stéphane Dray [ctb], David Forrest [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Patrick Giraudoux [ctb], Duncan Golicher [ctb], Virgilio Gómez Rubio [ctb], Patrick Hausmann [ctb], Karl Ove Hufthammer [ctb], Thomas Jagger [ctb], Kent Johnson [ctb], Matthew Lewis [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2244-4078>), Sebastian Luque [ctb], Don MacQueen [ctb], Andrew Niccolai [ctb], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro [ctb], Ethan Plunkett [ctb], Ege Rubak [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-533X>), Tom Short [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb], Ben Stabler [ctb], Murray Stokely [ctb], Rolf Turner [ctb]

Initial release

2021-03-14