I am working with start and end coordinate points and I have generated midpoints between the two. Each start, end, midpoint, and connecting segments are visualized using the plot function. Five segments (groups of points) are plotted side-by-side in near-parallel arrangements. I could use some help performing three functions:
1: Determine the 90-degree angle of each segment, 2: generate a line from the midpoint of each segment to the intersecting point of the next segment (for instance, 90-degrees from the midpoint of segment 1 to anywhere on segment 2), 3: and report the distance of the generated line data3<-data2 #cannot have two sets of coordinates in one dataframe; create another # need two sets of coordinates to plot line segments connecting # haul start and haul end coordinates command is necessary. It converts the dataframe to "Spatial Points Dataframe" # so that SetLon and SetLat are gone, replaced by one column coordinates(data2)<-~LonOD+LatOD # Defines point coordinates and converts the dataframe coordinates(data3)<-~LonTrap+LatTrap # repeat for end coordinates data2@proj4string<-CRS('+init=epsg:4326') # DEFINE PROJECTION AS LATLON data3@proj4string<-CRS('+init=epsg:4326') # DITTO plot(bathy.arc.tr,col="gray80" #bathy.arc@data$color<mailto:#bathy.arc@data$color> ,xlim=c(-70.9065,-70.905),ylim=c(41.4715,41.4748)) # bathy comes first so data points aren't covered up polygon(c(-71,-71,-70,-70) ,c( 41, 42, 42, 41), col=rgb(0.44, 1, 1, .2)) # this is rgb; last # is transparency so bathymetry is seen (if present) # plot points plot(data2,pch=18,col=c("red"), add=T, border="transparent") # Start coordinates points(LatTrap~LonTrap, data2, pch=18, col="green2") # End coordinates segments(data2@coords[,1], data2@coords[,2], data3@coords[,1], data3@coords[,2],col=c("black")) # plot segments (start to end coordinates) Included is an example of the groups of 5 near-parallel segments. Each group of 5 segments are uniquely identified (such as group1:pair1, group1:pair2, etc.). Again, looking for the 90-degree distance from midpoint of group1:pair1 to intersection of group1:pair2. David M. Chosid Conservation Solutions MA Division of Marine Fisheries 836 S. Rodney French Blvd. Mobile: 857-393-4026 david.cho...@mass.gov<mailto:david.cho...@mass.gov> ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.