Great Circle Distance In Kilometers

Gives the "great circle" or "haversine" distance between pairs of lat/lng coordinates in kilometers.

Usage

greatCircleDistanceKm(aLat, aLng, bLat, bLng)

Arguments

aLat

vector of latitude cooridnates (from)

aLng

vector of longitude coordinates (from)

bLat

vector of latitude coordinates (to)

bLng

vector of longitude coordinates (to)

Value

numeric vector giving the great circle distance in kilometres

Examples

greatCircleDistanceKm(
  aLat = c(-37.820197)
  , aLng = c(144.983324)
  , bLat = c(-37.818476)
  , bLng = c(144.967354)
)
#> [1] 1.415771