Re: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Mar-05 Sander Oom wrote: Hi Yyan, The proj4R package by Roger Bivand will allow you to project data in many ways and directions. http://spatial.nhh.no/R/Devel/proj4R-pkg.pdf It uses the proj libraries from: http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/ Not sure where you would derive

Re: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-10 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk writes: : : yyan liu wrote: : Hi: :Is there any function in R which can convert the : long/lat to UTM(Universal Transverse Mercator)? :There are quite a few converters on Internet. : However, the interface is designed as input-output : which I can not

Re: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Mar-05 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk writes: : [...] : As Sander says, Not sure where you would derive the time zone!. : : Unless you can refer a (long,lat) position to a look-up : table, you can't predict what the zone will be to less : the 1 hour (except of

Re: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-10 Thread Greg Snow
Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/10/05 09:13AM On 10-Mar-05 Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk writes: : [...] : As Sander says, Not sure where you would derive the time zone!. : [snip] The only completely general mechanism I can think of would consist of

Re: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
On 10-Mar-05 Greg Snow wrote: [...] I found a shapefile of time zones at: http://openmap.bbn.com/data/shape/timezone/ A google search on the keywords timezone shapefile finds a few other possibilities. b) a function which, for each name in the list, returns the TZ name The

RE: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-09 Thread Mulholland, Tom
I think I recall seeing a limited capability in the PBSmapping package. Tom -Original Message- From: yyan liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 1:20 PM To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] from long/lat to UTM Hi: Is there any function in R which

Re: [R] from long/lat to UTM

2005-03-09 Thread Sander Oom
Hi Yyan, The proj4R package by Roger Bivand will allow you to project data in many ways and directions. http://spatial.nhh.no/R/Devel/proj4R-pkg.pdf It uses the proj libraries from: http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/ Not sure where you would derive the time zone! Good luck, Sander. yyan liu