To calculate the Euclidean distance between two vectors in R we can define the following function. Calculate distance in kilometers between two points. Euclidean.
Heres an example of how to calculate a distance matrix for geographic points expressed as decimal latitudes and longitudes using R.
To carry on the example. Anyway my colleague Hideaki has quickly written an R function to calculate the distance between the two geocoded locations utilizing distHaversine function from geosphere package. I have a data frame with among others longitude and latitude as variables for about 17000 points. The distance between two points calculation formula is similar to the right triangle rule where the squared hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.