track_angle {traipse} | R Documentation |
Calculate internal track angle on longitude, latitude input vectors. The unit of angle is degrees.
track_angle(x, y)
x |
longitude |
y |
latitude |
By convention the first and last values are set to NA
missing value, because the angle
applies to the location between each previous and next location.
To use this on multiple track ids, use a grouped data frame with tidyverse code like
data %>% group_by(id) %>% mutate(angle = track_angle(lon, lat))
.
The maximum possible value is 180 and the minimum is 0.
a numeric vector of the relative internal angle between sequential locations in degrees, see Details
track_angle(trips0$x, trips0$y)[1:10]
## maximum value
track_angle(c(0, 0, 0), c(0, 1, 2))
## minimum value
track_angle(c(0, 0, 0), c(0, 1, 0))