Doaa Osman
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14 Nov 2022

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13 Nov 2022
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distance calculation

in Introduction to R Programming / Tidying your data - unite() and spread()

how can you use R to calculate the distance between two points in a data frame, I've 4 columns start.lon, start.lat, end.lon, end.lat

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Elitsa Kaloyanova
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14 Nov 2022
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Hi Doaa,
thanks for reaching out! You can calculate the absolute distance between points, like so:

df$Absolute_Distance<-abs(df$start.Ion-df1$end.Ion)

Hope this helps!

Best,
365 Eli

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