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terra (version 0.5-2)

writeRaster: Write raster data to a file

Description

Write a SpatRaster object to a file.

Usage

# S4 method for SpatRaster,character
writeRaster(x, filename, 
    overwrite=FALSE, wopt=list(), ...)

Arguments

x

SpatRaster

filename

character. Output filename

overwrite

logical. If TRUE, filename is overwritten

wopt

list. Options for writing files. See Details

...

additional arguments. None implemented

Value

SpatRaster (invisibly). This function is used for the side-effect of writing values to a file.

Details

In many methods, options for writing raster files to disk can be provided with the wopt argument. wopt should be a named list. The following names are valid: filetype, datatype, gdal, tempdir, progress, memfrac and names.

Values for filetype are GDAL driver names. If this argument is not supplied, the driver is derived from the filename.

Values for datatype are "INT2U", "INT2S", "INT4U", "INT4S", "FLT4S", "FLT8S". The first three letters indicate whether it is an integer (whole numbers) of float (decimal numbers), the fourth character indicates the number of bytes used (allowing for large numbers, and/or more precision), and the "S" or "U" indicate whether the values are signed (both negative and positive) or unsigned (postive values only).

Values for gdal are GDAL driver specific datasource creation options. See the GDAL documentation. For example: gdal=c("COMPRESS=LZW","TFW=YES")