bounding_box: Automatically calculate a bounding box for your points

In ropensci/mdextract: What the package does (short line)

Automatically calculate a bounding box for your points

Description

Take a 2 x n matrix of lat/lon coordinates and convert them to a bounding box

Usage

bounding_box(pts)

Arguments

points

a 2 x n matrix or dataframe of lat/long coordinates in decimal degrees

Value

a vector of boundings points as specified by EML - A sequence of: westBoundingCoordinate, eastBoundingCoordinate, northBoundingCoordinate, southBoundingCoordinate

Examples

file_nm <- system.file(package='mdextract','ext','data_gbif_1.csv')
example_points <- read.csv(file=file_nm,header=T)

ex_points = matrix(c(example_points$decimalLatitude, example_points$decimalLongitude), ncol=2)

ex_bb = bounding_box(ex_points)

plot(ex_points[,2], ex_points[,1], xlim=c(-180, 180), ylim=c(-90, 90))
rect(ex_bb[1], ex_bb[3], ex_bb[2], ex_bb[4])

ropensci/mdextract documentation built on May 18, 2022, 5:37 p.m.