Mag function

Magnitude and angle of a vector

Computes the magnitude of a vector of any dimension. Or angle (in degrees) in 2 dimensions.

Mag(...)

Angle(x, y)

Arguments

• ...: numeric vectors of coordinates or list of coordinates
• x, y,: x and y directions of the vector

Returns

Mag: A numeric vector the same length as each element of ... that is $\sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + ...)$. Angle: A numeric vector of the same length as x and y that is atan2(y, x)*180/pi.

Details

Helpful to save keystrokes and gain readability when computing wind (or any other vector quantity) magnitude.

Examples

Mag(10, 10)
Angle(10, 10)
Mag(10, 10, 10, 10)
Mag(list(10, 10, 10, 10))

# There's no vector recicling!
## Not run:

Mag(1, 1:2)
## End(Not run)

See Also

Other utilities: Anomaly(), JumpBy(), Percentile(), logic

Other utilities: Anomaly(), JumpBy(), Percentile(), logic