runifsphere {globe} | R Documentation |
These functions generate random points on a sphere using different rules.
runifsphere(n)
runifsphere.wrong(n)
n |
The number of points to be simulated. |
runifsphere
generates uniformly-distributed random points on the
sphere.
runifsphere.wrong
generates random points which are uniformly
distributed in (longitude, latitude) coordinates.
These are not uniformly distributed on the sphere.
A data frame containing two columns of coordinates: the first column for longitude, the second column for latitude.
Adrian Baddeley and Tom Lawrence
runifsphere(10)
runifsphere.wrong(10)