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line_bearing

Find the bearing of straight lines


Description

This is a simple wrapper around the geosphere function bearing() to return the bearing (in degrees relative to north) of lines.

Usage

line_bearing(l, bidirectional = FALSE)

Arguments

l

A spatial lines object

bidirectional

Should the result be returned in a bidirectional format? Default is FALSE. If TRUE, the same line in the oposite direction would have the same bearing

Details

Returns a boolean vector. TRUE means that the associated line is in fact a point (has no distance). This can be useful for removing data that will not be plotted.

See Also

Examples

lib_versions <- sf::sf_extSoftVersion()
lib_versions
# fails on some systems (with early versions of PROJ)
if (lib_versions[3] >= "6.3.1") {
  bearings_sf_1_9 <- line_bearing(flowlines_sf[1:5, ])
  bearings_sf_1_9 # lines of 0 length have NaN bearing
  bearings_sp_1_9 <- line_bearing(flowlines[1:5, ])
  bearings_sp_1_9
  plot(bearings_sf_1_9, bearings_sp_1_9)
  line_bearing(flowlines_sf[1:5, ], bidirectional = TRUE)
  line_bearing(flowlines[1:5, ], bidirectional = TRUE)
}

stplanr

Sustainable Transport Planning

v0.8.2
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Robin Lovelace [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6536>), Richard Ellison [aut], Malcolm Morgan [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-9183>), Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Nick Bearman [ctb], Nikolai Berkoff [ctb], Scott Chamberlain [rev] (Scott reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/10), Mark Padgham [ctb], Andrea Gilardi [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9424-7439>)
Initial release

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