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I would have never imagined that I would have to go back to high school concepts and do strange trigonometric calculations.
However, it happened to me that I needed to convert GPS coordinates of a large data set to radians. It’s a trivial task, if you know how to do it.
The function takes as input two numbers: degrees and minutes (no seconds for the moment, sorry!), converts it in decimal form of degrees and then return a numeric value, which represents your coordinate in radiants.
As, usual, comments welcome.
degrees.to.radians<-function(degrees=45,minutes=30)
{
if(!is.numeric(minutes)) stop("Please enter a numeric value for minutes!\n")
if(!is.numeric(degrees)) stop("Please enter a numeric value for degrees!\n")
decimal<-minutes/60
c.num<-degrees+decimal
radians<-c.num*pi/180
radians
}
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