car2sph: Transforms 3D cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates

In celestial: Collection of Common Astronomical Conversion Routines and Functions

Description

Transforms 3D cartesian coordinates to spherical coordinates. The user can choose to return the spherical coordinates in degrees or radians.

Usage

car2sph(x, y, z, deg = TRUE)

Arguments

x	x values, can also contain a matrix of x, y and z (in that order).
y	y values.
z	z values
deg	Should degrees be returned (default) or radians.

Details

This is a low level function that is used for plot transformations.

Value

A data.frame is returned containing the columns long (longitude), lat (latitude) and radius.

Author(s)

Aaron Robotham

See Also

sph2car

Examples

print(car2sph(x=1,y=1,z=0,deg=TRUE))

Example output

Loading required package: RANN
Loading required package: NISTunits
Loading required package: pracma
     long lat   radius
[1,]   45   0 1.414214

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