By the way, this question is more appropriate for R-sig-geo. -- Don MacQueen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 11/18/14, 8:20 AM, "Zilefac Elvis" <zilefacel...@yahoo.com> wrote: >Hi, >I am trying to convert lat/lon to UTM but my results are extremely flawed. >Is it because of wrong UTM zone or my lon points are negative? > >I read a shapefile from ESRI using: >library(rgdal) >stations <- readOGR(".","stations") >print(proj4string(stations)) >## +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs > How to convert to UTM the following lat/lon points? Reproducible example >at the end. > > >library(sp) > >coordinates(xy) <- c("X", "Y") >proj4string(xy) <- CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 >+no_defs") ## for example >res <- spTransform(xy, CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 >+no_defs")) >res >as(res, "SpatialPoints") >x<-as(res, "SpatialPoints") >xx<-as.data.frame(x) > >#OR > >project(as.matrix(xy[,c("X","Y")]), "+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 >+datum=WGS84 +no_defs") >Everything goes wrong with the values. > >Please help. > > > > > >Zilefac. > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.