nearest: Find the nearest lat/long to another lat/long

In njtierney/maxcovr: A Set of Tools For Solving The Maximal Covering Location Problem

Description

This function finds the nearest lat/long pairs to another lat/long pair. So in the york building and york crime context, writing nearest(york_crime,york) reads as "find the nearest crime in york to each building in york, and returns a dataframe with every building in york, the nearest york_crime to each building, and the distance in metres between the two. Likewise, you could write nearest(york, york_crime), and this would return the nearest building to every crime. nearest assumes that the names of the latitude and longitude are "lat" and "long", but you can provide these names.

Usage

nearest(nearest_df, to_df, nearest_lat = "lat", nearest_long = "long",
  to_lat = "lat", to_long = "long")

Arguments

nearest_df	a dataframe containing latitude and longitude
to_df	a dataframe containing latitude and longitude
nearest_lat	name of latitude in nearest_df
nearest_long	name of longitude in nearest_df
to_lat	name of latitude in to_df
to_long	name of longitude in to_df

Value

dataframe of "to_df" along with the nearest "nearest_df" to each row, along with the distance between the two, and the nearest_id, the row position of the nearest_df closest to that row.

Examples

library(maxcovr)

nearest(nearest_df = york_crime,
        to_df = york)

# you can use the pipe as well

## Not run: 

library(magrittr)
york_crime %>% nearest(york)


## End(Not run)

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