tran.profile {RSurvey} | R Documentation

## Calculate the Profile Along a Transect

### Description

This function determines the profile spatial coordinates along a transect.

### Usage

    tran.profile(vertices)

### Arguments

`vertices` | a matrix with rows corresponding to the transect vertices and columns to spatial coordinates.

### Value

A matrix with rows corresponding to locations along a profile. Variables associated with each location include:

`[,1]` | `x` | numeric | locations on the x-axis
`[,2]` | `y` | numeric | locations on the y-axis
`[,3]` | `h` | numeric | locations on the local x-axis.
`[,4]` | `z` | numeric | locations on the z-axis

### Author(s)

Fisher, J. C.

### Examples

    data(confluence)
    vert <- matrix(c(679164, 4135733, 679239, 4135730), nrow = 2, ncol = 2,
            byrow = TRUE, dimnames = list(c("1", "2"), c("x", "y")))
    prof <- tran.profile(vert)
    prof

[Package RSurvey version 0.4.5 Index]