dist_cpp: Distance matrix calculation.

In intkrige: A Numerical Implementation of Interval-Valued Kriging

Distance matrix calculation.

Description

Calculation of Euclidean or geographic distance. Based on an adaptation of rdist.earth in the fields package. Uses earth radius = 6378.388 km for great circle distance calculations.

Usage

dist_cpp(loc1, loc2, geographic)

Arguments

loc1	A two column matrix representing the longitude/latitude (i.e. x/y) coordinates of the first set of distances.
loc2	A two column matrix representing the longitude/latitude (i.e. x/y) coordinates of the second set of distances (for pairwise distance matrix set loc1 = loc2).
geographic	If TRUE, calculate great circle distance. If FALSE, calculate Euclidean distance.

Details

Note that while this function is still available to users. It is not actively used in the intkrige function. Instead, for user convenience, distances are calculated using distance functions in the sp package.

Value

A matrix of pairwise distances between each combination of rows from loc1 and loc2 respectively.

Examples

data(utsnow)
locs1 <- as.matrix(utsnow[, c("LONGITUDE", "LATITUDE")])
distMat <- dist_cpp(locs1, locs1, geographic = TRUE)

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