Dear R users, I have two coloumns of data, say x and y, referring to a list of points in 2D space. I am trying to develop a code that will give me the distances (using Pythagoras) between consecutive points (xi,yi) and (xi+1,yi+1). So far I have come up with the following:
for (i in 1:length(x)) d<-sqrt((x[i+1]-x[i])^2+(y[i+1]-y[i])^2) For example, if I use the two points (note, I have hundreds of points for x,y) x<-c(64.59,64.60) y<-c(-179.28,-179.28) d should be 0.01. But it just doesn't give me the correct answer and I can't figure out why. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, D'Arcy ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
