Package: geosphere 1.6-7

Robert J. Hijmans

geosphere: Spherical Trigonometry

Spherical trigonometry for geographic applications. That is, compute distances and related measures for angular (longitude/latitude) locations.

Authors:Robert J. Hijmans [cre, aut], Charles Karney [ctb], Ed Williams [ctb], Chris Vennes [ctb]

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geosphere/json (API)

# Install 'geosphere' in R:

install.packages('geosphere', repos = c('https://rspatial.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/rspatial/geosphere/issues

Uses libs:

c++– GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Datasets:

merc - World countries
wrld - World countries

On CRAN:

cpp

14.60 score 41 stars 130 packages 7.3k scripts 34k downloads 112 mentions 46 exports 1 dependencies

Last updated from:614c1e525a. Checks:15 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel-arm64	OK	107
linux-devel-x86_64	OK	127
source / vignettes	OK	212
linux-release-arm64	OK	100
linux-release-x86_64	OK	119
macos-release-arm64	OK	130
macos-release-x86_64	OK	232
macos-oldrel-arm64	OK	129
macos-oldrel-x86_64	OK	224
windows-devel-arm64	OK	267
windows-devel-x86_64	OK	151
windows-release-arm64	OK	306
windows-release-x86_64	OK	135
windows-oldrel-x86_64	OK	123
wasm-release	OK	102

Exports:alongTrackDistance antipodal antipode areaPolygon bearing bearingRhumb centroid daylength destPoint destPointRhumb dist2gc dist2Line distCosine distGeo distHaversine distm distMeeus distRhumb distVincentyEllipsoid distVincentySphere finalBearing gcIntermediate gcIntersect gcIntersectBearing gcLat gcLon gcMaxLat geodesic geodesic_inverse geomean greatCircle greatCircleBearing horizon lengthLine makeLine makePoly mercator midPoint onGreatCircle OSGB perimeter plotArrows randomCoordinates refEllipsoids regularCoordinates span

Dependencies:Rcpp

Introduction to the geosphere package

Rendered fromgeosphere.Rnwusingutils::Sweave

Last update: 2026-03-01
Started: 2018-08-20

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Geosphere	geosphere-package geosphere
Along Track Distance	alongTrackDistance
Antipodes	antipodal antipode
Area of a longitude/latitude polygon	areaPolygon areaPolygon,data.frame-method areaPolygon,matrix-method areaPolygon,sf-method areaPolygon,SpatialPolygons-method areaPolygon,SpatVector-method
Direction of travel	bearing
Rhumbline direction	bearingRhumb
Centroid of spherical polygons	centroid centroid,data.frame-method centroid,matrix-method centroid,SpatialPolygons-method
Daylength	daylength
Destination given bearing (direction) and distance	destPoint
Destination along a rhumb line	destPointRhumb
Cross Track Distance	dist2gc
Distance between points and lines or the border of polygons.	dist2Line
'Law of cosines' great circle distance	distCosine
Distance on an ellipsoid (the geodesic)	distGeo
'Haversine' great circle distance	distHaversine
Distance matrix	distm
'Meeus' great circle distance	distMeeus
Distance along a rhumb line	distRhumb
'Vincenty' (ellipsoid) great circle distance	distVincentyEllipsoid
'Vincenty' (sphere) great circle distance	distVincentySphere
Final direction	finalBearing
Intersections of two great circles	gcIntersect
Intersections of two great circles	gcIntersectBearing
Latitude on a Great Circle	gcLat
Longitude on a Great Circle	gcLon
Highest latitude on a great circle	gcMaxLat
geodesic and inverse geodesic problem	geodesic geodesic_inverse
Mean location of sperhical coordinates	geomean
Great circle	greatCircle
Great circle	greatCircleBearing
Distance to the horizon	horizon
Intermediate points on a great circle (sphere)	gcIntermediate
Length of lines	lengthLine
Add vertices to a polygon or line	makeLine makePoly
Mercator projection	mercator
Mid-point	midPoint
Is a point on a given great circle?	onGreatCircle
Ordnance Survey for Great Britain grid reference system	OSGB
Compute the perimeter of a longitude/latitude polygon	perimeter perimeter,data.frame-method perimeter,matrix-method perimeter,SpatialLines-method perimeter,SpatialPolygons-method
Plot	plotArrows
Random or regularly distributed coordinates on the globe	randomCoordinates regularCoordinates
Reference ellipsoids	refEllipsoids
Span of polygons	span span,matrix-method span,sf-method span,SpatialPolygons-method span,SpatVector-method
World countries	merc wrld