DMS-class function

Class "DMS" for degree, minute, decimal second values

The class provides a container for coordinates stored as degree, minute, decimal second values. class

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("DMS", ...), converted from decimal degrees using dd2dms(), or converted from character strings using char2dms().

Slots

• WS:: Object of class "logical" TRUE if input value negative
• deg:: Object of class "numeric" degrees
• min:: Object of class "numeric" minutes
• sec:: Object of class "numeric" decimal seconds
• NS:: Object of class "logical" TRUE if input value is a Northing

Methods

• coerce: signature(from = "DMS", to = "numeric"): convert to decimal degrees
• show: signature(object = "DMS"): print data values

Author(s)

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand@nhh.no

See Also

char2dms, dd2dms

Examples

data(state)
dd2dms(state.center$x)
dd2dms(state.center$y, NS=TRUE)
as.numeric(dd2dms(state.center$y))
as(dd2dms(state.center$y, NS=TRUE), "numeric")
as.numeric.DMS(dd2dms(state.center$y))
state.center$y