Hi Tristan, I recently had to do something similar (calculating distance to the next downstream point), and I was not able to find a solution with R that would deal with the direction of the flow. Perhaps someone who has deeper understanding of packages such as iGraph etc. might be able to find a solution, but I wasn't. I solved the problem with ArcMap, using HydroTools extension, where you need to define a geometric network that has a direction, and then the calculation is pretty straightforward with HydroTools (let me know if you need more info). I would prefer to have a scripted solution in an open-source software, but this worked for me in any case. If anyone has a better way for solving this, I would love to see how!
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