Since the inner product of two vectors if the cos of the angle between them:
> A <- c(0,1); O <- c(0,0); B <- c(1,0) > acos((A-O) %*% (B-O)) * 180 / pi [,1] [1,] 90 On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:08 AM, clair.crossup...@googlemail.com<clair.crossup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I was doing some self study and was wondering if a function already > exists which allows one to determine the angle between points. e.g. > given the following (x,y) coordinates > > input: (0,1); (0,0); (1,0) > > would result in: > > output: 90 degrees > > Best regards > C.C. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.