dist_km: Calculate minimum distance in kilometers

In Rvoterdistance: Voter Distance to Polling Locations

Calculate minimum distance in kilometers

Description

Given lat/lon vectors for voters and locations, returns the minimum Haversine distance in kilometers for each voter to the nearest location.

Usage

dist_km(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2)

Arguments

lat1	Numeric vector of voter latitudes.
lon1	Numeric vector of voter longitudes.
lat2	Numeric vector of location latitudes.
lon2	Numeric vector of location longitudes.

Value

Numeric vector of minimum distances in kilometers.

Examples

data(meck_ev)
d <- dist_km(voter_meck$lat, voter_meck$long,
             early_meck$lat, early_meck$long)
summary(d)

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