frame2gpx: Convert latlon data frame to gpx file.

In geo: Draw and Annotate Maps, Especially Charts of the North Atlantic

Description

Writes a gpx file of a dataframe with a call to gpsbabel in the shell

Usage

frame2gpx(data, filename = "tmp.gpx", type = "rte")

Arguments

data	Data frame with positions in columns lat and lon.
filename	Name of gpx-file, defaults to 'tmp.gpx'.
type	Type of gpx-file, one of wpt for waypoints, rte' for route or trk for track.

Note

Requires gpsbabel installation working from the command line.

See Also

gpsbabel.org

Examples

## Not run: 
# some positions
pos <- rPeri(323)
frame2gpx(pos)
system("more tmp.gpx")
system("rm tmp.gpx")

## End(Not run)

geo documentation built on May 29, 2017, 5:36 p.m.