Error in .pointsToMatrix(p1) : latitude > 90

Question

I am trying to use the distVincentyEllipsoid function in the geosphere package in R to calculate the distance between different points in my data frame, following the exampl

Answer 1

I was just having the same issue. Check to see if you input the data as c(LONG, LAT). I had made the mistake of using the more common format of c(LAT, LONG).

Answer 2

Having the same issue, solved with as.numeric :

args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly=TRUE)
Lieu1 <- c(args[1],args[2]) 
Lieu2 <- c(args[3],args[4]) 

Lieu1 <- as.numeric(Lieu1)
Lieu2 <- as.numeric(Lieu2)

library(geosphere)
distVincentyEllipsoid(Lieu1,Lieu2)/1000

Answer 3

I would also add that you should check for NAs. I geocoded a set of zip codes to coordinates and since some of the zips were out of date (at least that's what I think happened), they failed to generate coordinates.

If you run:

range(p1[2])

and get

NA NA

then that's a pretty go indication.