Re: [R] Map projections - converting latitude/longitude to eastings and northings

2009-07-02 Thread Roger Bivand
Wouldn't grass-users, or maybe R-sig-geo be a more appropriate list? Given points in geographical coordinates, use project() or spTransform() in rgdal. The former will not do datum transformation, the latter will. NAD83 is a US datum specification based on WGS84, UTM is a projection but is

Re: [R] Map projections - converting latitude/longitude to eastings and northings

2009-07-02 Thread stephen sefick
Thank you for your reply. Your suggestion for sending this to another list is probably the right one. I have just had so much wonderful help on this one I thought I would try this one first. I am very new to GIS and have a couple of years of experience with R. I will probably join the sig-geo

[R] Map projections - converting latitude/longitude to eastings and northings

2009-07-01 Thread stephen sefick
I am trying to set up a Grass project and need to set up the region so that I can view the map. I can look at a map and find the lat/lon, but the map projection is in UTM NAD38 WGS84 and I need to set the eastings and northings. Is there a package that will help me calculate this in R. thanks