Chapter 4 Spherical Geometries

Learning objectives:

  • Consider geometries on a sphere
Triangle on a Globe
Triangle on a Globe
library("dplyr")
library("ggplot2")
library("maps")
library("rnaturalearth")
library("rnaturalearthdata")
library("s2")
library("sf")

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