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This function returns the bearing (in degrees relative to north) of lines.

Usage

line_bearing(l, bidirectional = FALSE)

Arguments

l

A spatial lines object

bidirectional

Should the result be returned in a bidirectional format? Default is FALSE. If TRUE, the same line in the oposite direction would have the same bearing

Details

Returns a boolean vector. TRUE means that the associated line is in fact a point (has no distance). This can be useful for removing data that will not be plotted.

Examples

lib_versions <- sf::sf_extSoftVersion()
lib_versions
#>           GEOS           GDAL         proj.4 GDAL_with_GEOS     USE_PROJ_H 
#>       "3.10.2"        "3.4.1"        "8.2.1"         "true"         "true" 
#>           PROJ 
#>        "8.2.1" 
# fails on some systems (with early versions of PROJ)
if (lib_versions[3] >= "6.3.1") {
  bearings_sf_1_9 <- line_bearing(flowlines_sf[1:5, ])
  bearings_sf_1_9 # lines of 0 length have NaN bearing
  line_bearing(flowlines_sf[1:5, ], bidirectional = TRUE)
}
#> [1]       NaN 87.950582 77.554344 36.163396  6.668455