projec.define {RGeostats}

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Define the Projection

Description

Define the characteristics of the Projection

Usage

projec.define(projection="mean", 
parameters=NULL, orientation=NULL, db=NA, 
verbose=TRUE, flag.update=TRUE)

Arguments

projection	Name of the projection
parameters	Parameters used for the projection
orientation	Parameter specifying the orientation, used in some projections.
db	When defined, the center of the projection is calculated as the center of gravity of the active data contained in this db-class structure.
verbose	A message is produced when verbose=1 if a projection is defined and currently active
flag.update	When TRUE, the Environment File is updated.

Details

For more information on the arguments, you should refer to the documentation of the Package "mapproj" and to the function "mapproject" in particular. Note that, if you enter 'proj4' as first argument, then you can specify the usual PROJ4 projection string as 'parameters' in order to operate the PROJ4 projection facility.

Value

Not used here

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