Converting NAD83 state plane coordinates to WS84 standard lon/lat in degrees
I tried to use this instruction to convert a set of x-y coordinates in NAD83 State Plane Coordinates to regular Lan/Lat coordinates in degrees. I could reproduce for the example given in this post but it fails to give right answer to my set! Following is what I have tried and what I obtained [wrong answer]. library(rgdal) nad83_coords <- data.frame(x=c(577430), y=c(2323270)) # My coordinates in NAD83 coordinates(nad83_coords) <- c('x', 'y') proj4string(nad83_coords)=CRS("+init=esri:102272") # West Illinois coordinates_deg <- spTransform(nad83_coords,CRS("+init=epsg:3436")) # West Illinois > x