Geographic / geospatial distance between 2 lists of lat/lon points (coordinates)

Question

I have 2 lists (list1, list2) with latitude / longitudes of various locations. One list (list2) has locality names that list1

Answer 1

I add below a solution using the spatialrisk package. The key functions in this package are written in C++ (Rcpp), and are therefore very fast.

The function spatialrisk::points_in_circle() calculates the observations within radius from a center point. Note that distances are calculated using the Haversine formula. Since each element of the output is a data frame, purrr::map_dfr is used to row-bind them together:

ans <- purrr::map2_dfr(list1$longitude, 
                       list1$latitude, 
                       ~spatialrisk::points_in_circle(list2, .x, .y, 
                                                      lon = longitude, 
                                                      lat = latitude, 
                                                      radius = 2000000)[1,])
cbind(list1, ans)

    longitude latitude longitude latitude locality  distance_m
1   80.15998 12.90524  77.76180 13.02212        D 260484.0591
2   72.89125 19.08120  72.89537 19.07726        A    616.6369
3   77.65032 12.97238  77.64214 13.00954        C   4230.7216
4   77.60599 12.90927  77.58415 12.92079        D   2694.4566
5   72.88120 19.08225  72.89537 19.07726        A   1590.8723
6   76.65460 12.81447  76.65460 12.81447        E      0.0000
7   72.88232 19.08241  72.89537 19.07726        A   1487.8028
8   77.49186 13.00984  77.58415 12.92079        D  14089.1051
9   72.82228 18.99347  72.89537 19.07726        A  12089.6454
10  72.88871 19.07990  72.89537 19.07726        A    759.8012