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Questions - geosphere

Calculate distance between multiple latitude and longitude points

I have a dataset that has latitude and longitude information for participants' home and work, and I'd like to create a new column in the dataset containing the euclidean distance between home and work...
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Shannon

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distance

latitude-longitude

geosphere

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distm() returns a distance matrix, which is not what you want; you want the pairwise distances. So use the distance function (distHaversine(), distGeo(), or whatever) directly: library(tidyverse) loc...
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alistaire

Calculating distance between all locations to first location, by group

I have GPS locations from several seabird tracks, each starting from colony x. Therefore the individual tracks all have similar first locations. For each track, I would like to calculate the beeline d...
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user303287

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gps

distance

geosphere

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You were pretty close. The key is that you want to calcualte the distance from the first observation in each track. Therefore you need to first adorn with the order in each track (easy to do with dply...
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