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+library(XML)
+library(raster)
+
+shift.vec <- function (vec, shift) {
+  if(length(vec) <= abs(shift)) {
+    rep(NA ,length(vec))
+  }else{
+    if (shift >= 0) {
+      c(rep(NA, shift), vec[1:(length(vec)-shift)]) }
+    else {
+      c(vec[(abs(shift)+1):length(vec)], rep(NA, abs(shift))) } } }
+
+pfile <- htmlTreeParse("Rik_Veenboer_2015-11-10_17-21-59.gpx", useInternalNodes = T)
+
+# Get all elevations, times and coordinates via the respective xpath
+elevations <- as.numeric(xpathSApply(pfile, path = "//trkpt/ele", xmlValue))
+times = xpathSApply(pfile, path = "//trkpt/time", xmlValue)
+coords <- xpathSApply(pfile, path = "//trkpt", xmlAttrs)
+
+# Extract latitude and longitude from the coordinates
+lats <- as.numeric(coords["lat",])
+lons <- as.numeric(coords["lon",])
+# Put everything in a dataframe and get rid of old variables
+geodf <- data.frame(lat = lats, lon = lons, ele = elevations, time = times)
+rm(list=c("elevations", "lats", "lons", "pfile", "times", "coords"))
+head(geodf)
+
+# Shift vectors for lat and lon so that each row also contains the next position.
+geodf$lat.p1 <- shift.vec(geodf$lat, -1)
+geodf$lon.p1 <- shift.vec(geodf$lon, -1)
+# Calculate distances (in metres) using the function pointDistance from the 'raster' package.
+# Parameter 'lonlat' has to be TRUE!
+geodf$dist.to.prev <- apply(geodf, 1, FUN = function (row) {
+  pointDistance(c(as.numeric(row["lat.p1"]),
+                  as.numeric(row["lon.p1"])),
+                c(as.numeric(row["lat"]), as.numeric(row["lon"])),
+                lonlat = T)
+})
+# Transform the column 'time' so that R knows how to interpret it.
+geodf$time <- strptime(geodf$time, format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%OS")
+# Shift the time vector, too.
+geodf$time.p1 <- shift.vec(geodf$time, -1)
+# Calculate the number of seconds between two positions.
+geodf$time.diff.to.prev <- as.numeric(difftime(geodf$time.p1, geodf$time))
+# Calculate metres per seconds, kilometres per hour and two LOWESS smoothers to get rid of some noise.
+geodf$speed.m.per.sec <- geodf$dist.to.prev / geodf$time.diff.to.prev
+geodf$speed.km.per.h <- geodf$speed.m.per.sec * 3.6
+geodf$speed.km.per.h <- ifelse(is.na(geodf$speed.km.per.h), 0, geodf$speed.km.per.h)
+geodf$speed.km.per.h <- ifelse(geodf$speed.km.per.h > 40, 0, geodf$speed.km.per.h)
+geodf$lowess.speed <- lowess(geodf$speed.km.per.h, f = 0.01)$y
+geodf$lowess.ele <- lowess(geodf$ele, f = 0.02)$y
+
+
+# Plot elevations and smoother
+plot(geodf$ele, type = "l", bty = "n", xaxt = "n", ylab = "Elevatio", xlab = "", col = "grey40")
+lines(geodf$lowess.ele, col = "red", lwd = 3)
+legend(x="bottomright", legend = c("GPS elevation", "LOWESS elevation"),
+       col = c("grey40", "red"), lwd = c(1,3), bty = "n")
+
+
+# Plot speeds and smoother
+plot(geodf$speed.km.per.h, type = "l", bty = "n", xaxt = "n", ylab = "Speed (km/h)", xlab = "",
+     col = "grey40")
+lines(geodf$lowess.speed, col = "blue", lwd = 3)
+legend(x="bottom", legend = c("GPS speed", "LOWESS speed"),
+       col = c("grey40", "blue"), lwd = c(1,3), bty = "n")
+abline(h = mean(geodf$speed.km.per.h), lty = 2, col = "blue")
+
+# Plot the track without any map, the shape of the track is already visible.
+plot(rev(geodf$lon), rev(geodf$lat), type = "l", col = "red", lwd = 3, bty = "n", ylab = "Latitude", xlab = "Longitude")