create an spatialpointobject from 1 point

Source: R/karim.R

create an spatial point object from 1 point and optionally export it as a shapefile

sp_point(
  lon,
  lat,
  ID = "point",
  proj4 = "+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs",
  export = FALSE,
  runDir = runDir
)

Arguments

lon

lon

lat

lat

ID

name of point

proj4

projection

export

write shafefile default = F

runDir

character runtime folder

Examples

## creating sp spatial point object
point <- sp_point(8.770362,50.815240,ID="Faculty of Geographie Marburg")