Shortest distance between pairs of geometries — shortest_distance_to_line • tectonicr

The shortest Great Circle distance between pairs of geometries

Usage

shortest_distance_to_line(x, line, ellipsoidal = FALSE)

Arguments

x, line: objects of class sfg, sfc or sf
ellipsoidal: Logical. Whether the distance is calculated using spherical distances (sf::st_distance()) or ellipsoidal distances (lwgeom::st_geod_distance()).

Value

numeric. Shortest distance in meters

Examples

plate_boundary <- subset(plates, plates$pair == "na-pa")
shortest_distance_to_line(san_andreas, plate_boundary) |>
  head()
#> [1] 270330.7 278345.4 299623.0 346884.7 547464.8 622915.5