char2dd: Clean Coordiantes Formats
In kardinal-eros/vegit: Utilities for Managing the vegsoup-data Repository

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) Examples

The function converts coordinates stored as degree, minute, decimal second values (dms) to decimal degrees (dd).

1	char2dd(x, chd = "°", chm = "\"", chs = "\"\"", NS = TRUE)

`x`	`character`, vector of coordinates
`chd`	`character`, degree character terminator
`chm`	`character`, minute character terminator
`chs`	`character`, second character terminator
`NS`	`logical`, `TRUE` for north/south, `FALSE` for east/west decimal degrees

Argument x may be composed of mixed dms and dd values. Quotation marks need to be escaped (" "\""). The function replaces the decimals as comma with dot and trims blanks from both ends.

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Roland Kaiser