> Dear all,I have GPS coordinates (one vector for longitude and one for
> latitude:
> GPSLong and GPSLat) of small are that is around 300meters X 300 meters
> (location falls inside UK).At the same time I have two more vectors (Longitude
> and Latitude) that include position of food stores again the UK I would like
> to
> find within my 300x300 square area which as the food stores that fall inside.I
> thought to try to find which of the Longitude of the food stores fall inside
> my
> area. I tried something the below
>
> Longitude[Longitude>(min(GPSLong)-
> 0.001)&&Longitude<(max(GPSLong)+0.001)]
> but this returned me zero results.The next option would be the code to return
> me at least the place that falls outside but still is close to that
> region.'Do you
> have any idea how to do that and not fall back in the time consuming look at
> each element iteration?
Well, in a sense R has already looked at every element of Longitude to get Min
and Max, so you're not avoiding that.
But wouldn't something like
which.min( c( GPSLong-Longitude, GPSLat-latitude )^2 )
return the index of the closest Latitude/Longitude pair to your GPS location?
And once you have the distances you could use order() or rank() to pick the top
5 (maybe using head()) or just rank() on the distances.
And once you've picked a set you can still additionally check whether a
location was within the box.
S Ellison
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