In ropenscilabs/parzer: Parse Messy Geographic Coordinates

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parzer parses messy geographic coordinates

Docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/parzer/

You may get data from a published study or a colleague where the coordinates are in some messy character format that you'd like to clean up to get all decimal degree numeric data.

parzer usage

For example, parse latitude and longitude from messy character vectors.

library("parzer")

parse_lat(c("45N54.2356", "-45.98739874", "40.123°"))

parse_lon(c("45W54.2356", "-45.98739874", "40.123°"))

And you can even split and parse strings that contain latitude and longitude together.

parse_llstr(c("4 51'36\"S, 101 34'7\"W",
              "40.123°; 45W54.2356"))

See more in the Introduction to the parzer package vignette.

Installation

Stable version:

install.packages("parzer")

Development version:

remotes::install_github("ropensci/parzer")

List of functions:

cat(paste(" -", paste(sprintf("`%s`", sort(getNamespaceExports("parzer"))), collapse = "\n - ")))

Similar art

• sp::char2dms: is most similar to parzer::parse_lat and parzer::parse_lon. However, with sp::char2dms you have to specify the termination character for each of degree, minutes and seconds. parzer does this for the user.
• biogeo::dms2dd: very unlike functions in this package. You must pass separate degrees, minutes, seconds and direction to dms2dd. No exact analog is found in parzer, whose main focus is parsing messy geographic coordinates in strings to a more machine readable version.

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