geographiclib: Access to 'GeographicLib'

Bindings to the 'GeographicLib' C++ library <https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/> for precise geodetic calculations including geodesic computations (distance, bearing, paths, intersections), map projections (UTM/UPS, Transverse Mercator, Lambert Conformal Conic, and more), grid reference systems (MGRS, Geohash, GARS, Georef), coordinate conversions (geocentric, local Cartesian), and polygon area on the WGS84 ellipsoid. All functions are fully vectorized.

Version: 0.4.0
LinkingTo: cpp11
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-02-25
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.geographiclib (may not be active yet)
Author: Michael Sumner [cre, aut], Charles Karney [cph, aut] (GeographicLib author and maintainer), Mark Borgerding [cph] (kissfft library (BSD-3-Clause))
Maintainer: Michael Sumner <mdsumner at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/hypertidy/geographiclib/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/hypertidy/geographiclib
NeedsCompilation: yes
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: geographiclib results

Documentation:

Reference manual: geographiclib.html , geographiclib.pdf
Vignettes: Geodesic Calculations (source, R code)
Introduction to geographiclib (source, R code)
Grid Reference Systems: MGRS, Geohash, GARS, and Georef (source, R code)
Local Coordinates and the Ellipsoid (source, R code)
Map Projections (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: geographiclib_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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