I am currently working with data (N of 271,848) in R that looks as follows:
Observation Longitude Latitude
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1 116.38800 39.928902
2 53.000000 32.000000
3 NA NA
4 NA NA
And I am using a reverse geocode function from the following post: Convert latitude and longitude coordinates to country name in R
When I run the coords2country(points)
line, I get the following error:
"Error in .checkNumericCoerce2double(obj) : non-finite coordinates"
My best guess is that the function does not know how to treat missing values. When I run the code on a subset of observations (excluding NA's/missing values), it works.
I attempted to modify the function slightly (see last line below) to fix this problem, but that still produced the error I am referring to above.
Reproducible example:
Data <- data.frame(
Observation = 1:5,
Longitude = c(116.3880005, 53, -97, NA, NA),
Latitude = c(39.92890167, 32, 32, NA, NA))
library(sp)
library(rworldmap)
coords2country = function(points)
{
countriesSP <- getMap(resolution='low')
#countriesSP <- getMap(resolution='high') #you could use high res map from rworldxtra if you were concerned about detail
# convert our list of points to a SpatialPoints object
#pointsSP = SpatialPoints(points, proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=wgs84"))
#! andy modified to make the CRS the same as rworldmap
#pointsSP = SpatialPoints(points, proj4string=CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs"))
# new changes in worldmap means you have to use this new CRS (bogdan):
pointsSP = SpatialPoints(points, proj4string=CRS(" +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs +towgs84=0,0,0"))
# use 'over' to get indices of the Polygons object containing each point
indices = over(pointsSP, countriesSP)
# return the ADMIN names of each country
indices$ADMIN
#indices$ISO3 # returns the ISO3 code
#The line below is what I thought could resolve the problem.
na.action = na.omit
}