transform | R Documentation |
Transformation of geographics coordinates from one projection to another, using PROJ.4 library.
ptransform(data, src.proj, dst.proj, silent=TRUE)
data |
input (list, matrix or 2d-array) - see details below. |
src.proj |
description of the source projection |
dst.proj |
description of the destination projection |
silent |
if set to |
The data can be a list of vectors (if the list contains more than
three entries, only first three entries are used and a warning is
issued), a two-dimensional matrix or array (the number of columns
or rows must be at most three). If the input is a list then the result
will be a list with the entries named x
, y
and z
,
otherwise the result is a matrix with three columns.
When the list form is used, inputs are recycled with a warning when necessary. All unspecified coordinates are set to zero.
Note that the project specification must include an ellipsoid
or a datum. Add ellps='sphere'
to obtain the same result as
older PROJ.4 versions with no datum specification.
Datum files must be installed in order to be able to perform datum
shifts (on Windows they should be located in c:\proj
) - see
PROJ.4 website for the download of datum files.
A matrix with three columns or list with projected coordinates. If the input was a list then the output will be a list, otherwise a matrix.
Simon Urbanek
data(state)
sc <- cbind(state.center$x, state.center$y)
## this is essentially the same as project except
## that the default lat/long input is in radians
tr <- ptransform(sc/180*pi, '+proj=latlong +ellps=sphere',
'+proj=merc +ellps=sphere')
## we can compare it with the project result
res <- project(sc, c(proj="merc"))
## ptransform has z coordinate which is 0 for this projection
summary(tr - cbind(res, 0))
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