Aliases: dist2Line
Keywords: spatial
### ** Examples line <- rbind(c(-180,-20), c(-150,-10), c(-140,55), c(10, 0), c(-140,-60)) pnts <- rbind(c(-170,0), c(-75,0), c(-70,-10), c(-80,20), c(-100,-50), c(-100,-60), c(-100,-40), c(-100,-20), c(-100,-10), c(-100,0)) d = dist2Line(pnts, line) plot( makeLine(line), type='l') points(line) points(pnts, col='blue', pch=20) points(d[,2], d[,3], col='red', pch='x') for (i in 1:nrow(d)) lines(gcIntermediate(pnts[i,], d[i,2:3], 10), lwd=2)