A simple coordinate geometry helper package. This package is developed for the UBC MDS DSCI 524 Collaborative Software Development course at the University of British Columbia.

This starter package allows users to perform various geometric operations like calculate distance between two parallel lines, distance between two n dimensional vectors, intersection of lines in 3-Dimensional space and determine if two infinite lines are perpendicular in n-dimensional space. Our motivation in creating this package was to allow users with minimal experience in R programming to be able to perform these geometric calculations easily.

While we are not really reinventing the wheel on coordinate geometry calculations with our package, we used this as an opportunity to gain some experience in understanding how these calculations function in the R ecosystem. There is an existing package called LearnGeom that executes similar functions. For example, the package has functions like DistanceLines that computes distance between two lines and IntersectLines which finds the intersection of two lines.

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("UBC-MDS/CoordGeomR")

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(CoordGeomR)
x1 <- c(1, 2, 3, 4)
x2 <- c(5, 6, 7, 8)
get_distance <- function(x1, x2, metric="Euclidean")

Further usage examples can be found in our documentation. See our full package documentation here: https://ubc-mds.github.io/CoordGeomR/

Interested in contributing? Check out the contributing guidelines. Please note that this project is released with a Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

We welcome and recognize all contributors. Names and GitHub @usernames listed below:

• Arlin Cherian: @arlincherian
• Nico Van Den Hooff: @nicovandenhooff
• Zheren Xu: @ZherenXu
• Jordan Casoli: @jcasoli

CoordGeomR is licensed under the terms of the