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as_distance

Distance in kilometers or miles between two locations based on lat-long Function based on http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html. Uses the haversine formula

Description

Distance in kilometers or miles between two locations based on lat-long Function based on http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html. Uses the haversine formula

Usage

as_distance(
  lat1,
  long1,
  lat2,
  long2,
  unit = "km",
  R = c(km = 6371, miles = 3959)[[unit]]
)

Arguments

`lat1`	Latitude of location 1
`long1`	Longitude of location 1
`lat2`	Latitude of location 2
`long2`	Longitude of location 2
`unit`	Measure kilometers ("km", default) or miles ("miles")
`R`	Radius of the earth

Value

Distance between two points

Examples

as_distance(32.8245525,-117.0951632, 40.7033127,-73.979681, unit = "km")
as_distance(32.8245525,-117.0951632, 40.7033127,-73.979681, unit = "miles")

radiant.data

Data Menu for Radiant: Business Analytics using R and Shiny

v1.3.12

AGPL-3 | file LICENSE

Authors

Vincent Nijs [aut, cre]

Initial release

2020-11-25