atl_simple_dist: Calculate distances between successive points.

In pratikunterwegs/atlastools: Tools for Pre-Processing High-Throughput Animal Tracking Data

Description

Gets the euclidean distance between consecutive points in a coordinate reference system in metres, i.e., UTM systems.

Usage

atl_simple_dist(data, x = "x", y = "y")

Arguments

data	A dataframe object of or extending the class data.frame, which must contain two coordinate columns for the X and Y coordinates.
x	A column name in a data.frame object that contains the numeric X or longitude coordinate for position data.
y	A column name in a data.frame object that contains the numeric Y or latitude coordinate for position data.

Value

Returns a vector of distances between consecutive points.

pratikunterwegs/atlastools documentation built on Nov. 7, 2021, 7:14 p.m.