moveLatitude: Add distance in the latitude direction to a coordinate

In drodriguezperez/whereiam: whereiam: Geolocation package and spherical trigonometry calculations

Description

Add distance in the latitude direction to the indicate coordinate. The distance can be indicated on kilometers or miles

Usage

  moveLatitude(...)

  ## Default S3 method:
 moveLatitude(latitude, longitude,
    distance, units = "km", ...)

  ## S3 method for class 'Coordinate'
 moveLatitude(coordinate, distance,
    units = "km", ...)

Arguments

latitude	a latitude coordinate
longitude	a longitude coordinate
distance	the distance to add in km or miles
units	a string with the distance units (default kilometers)
coordinate	a coordinate class
...	other arguments

Value

a Coordinate object with the new coordinates

Examples

# Add 10 kilometers to the north to a position
cord <- Coordinate(43, -8)
cord <- moveLatitude(cord, 10)

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