export: Export spatial data from MPG and GOC models

Description

This function automates the export of raster and vector spatial data from mpg and grain objects. By default it places them in a new directory, unless an existing one is specified with overwrite = TRUE.

It can also be used to process mpg and grain objects to produce R spatial objects that are convenient for plotting or analysis within R. Use R = TRUE in which case all parameters related to file export are ignored. (Default R = FALSE)

The raster::writeRaster() function is used for rasters, and sf::st_write() is used to export ESRI compatible shape files.

Usage

export(
  x,
  dirname = NULL,
  path = ".",
  rasterFormat = "GTiff",
  overwrite = FALSE,
  R = FALSE,
  vorBound = FALSE,
  ...
)
# S4 method for mpg
export(
  x,
  dirname = NULL,
  path = ".",
  rasterFormat = "GTiff",
  overwrite = FALSE,
  R = FALSE,
  vorBound = FALSE,
  ...
)
# S4 method for grain
export(
  x,
  dirname = NULL,
  path = ".",
  rasterFormat = "GTiff",
  overwrite = FALSE,
  R = FALSE,
  vorBound = FALSE,
  ...
)
# S4 method for goc
export(
  x,
  dirname = NULL,
  path = ".",
  rasterFormat = "GTiff",
  overwrite = FALSE,
  R = FALSE,
  vorBound = FALSE,
  ...
)

Value

Invisibly returns the path to the folder created.

Side effect of exporting files representing raster and vector spatial data in the object.

Please note that for vector data export the attribute name is limited to 8 characters in shape files. See the tables below for the abbreviations used and their meaning.

Exported from mpg objects:

nodes, linksCentroid, linksPerim are shape files giving the locations of the patch centroids, links among centroids, and links among perimeters of patches respectively. patchId, voronoi are rasters giving the patch identifier of the patch, or of the patch that the Voronoi polygon refers to. lcpPerimWeight, lcpLinkId give the weight in cost surface units of the shortest paths between perimeters, and the identifiers of those links respectively. vorBound gives the boundaries of the Voronoi polygons (if specified).

Description of node (vertex) and link (edge) weights in mpg objects and their corresponding attribute names in the shape files created.

type	MPG name	SHP name	Description
node	`patchId`	`patchId`	Patch ID from `patchId` raster
node	`patchArea`	`patchA`	Area of patch
node	`patchEdgeArea`	`patchEA`	Edge area of patch
node	`coreArea`	`coreA`	Area excluding edge of patch
node	`centroidX`	`ctrX`	Centroid of the patch (X)
node	`centroidY`	`ctrY`	Centroid of the patch (Y)
link	`e1`	`e1`	Id of first patch at end of link
link	`e2`	`e2`	Id of second patch at end of link
link	`linkId`	`linkId`	Link ID from `lcpLinkId` raster
link	`lcPerimWeight`	`lcpPerWt`	Cost length of link from patch perimeters
link	`startPerimX`	`strtPerX`	Coordinate of link endpoint on first patch (X)
link	`startPerimY`	`strtPerY`	Coordinate of link endpoint on first patch (Y)
link	`endPerimX`	`endPerX`	Coordinate of link endpoint on second patch (X)
link	`endPerimY`	`endPerY`	Coordinate of link endpoint on second patch (Y)

Exported from grain objects:

nodes, linksCentroid are shape files giving the locations of the Voronoi polygon centroids and links among them respectively. voronoi are rasters gives the polygon identifier of each cluster of patches. vorBound gives the boundaries of the Voronoi polygons (if specified).

Description of node (vertex) and link (edge) weights in grain

objects and their corresponding attribute names in the shape files created.

Type	GOC name	SHP name	Description
node	`polygonId`	`polyId`	Polygon ID from grain voronoi raster
node	`polygonArea`	`polyA`	Area of polygon from grain voronoi raster
node	`totalPatchArea`	`patchA`	Total area of all patches in polygon
node	`totalPatchEdgeArea`	`patchEA`	Total area of all patch edges in polygon
node	`totalCoreArea`	`coreA`	Total area of patches in polygon excluding edges
node	`centroidX`	`ctrX`	Centroid of the polygon (X)
node	`centroidY`	`ctrY`	Centroid of the polygon (Y)
link	`e1`	`e1`	ID of first patch at end of link
link	`e2`	`e2`	ID of second patch at end of link
link	`maxWeight`	`maxWt`	The maximum weight of all links connecting patches between polygons
link	`linkIdMaxWeight`	`maxWt`	The link id of that maximum weight `link (lcpLinkId)`
link	`minWeight`	`min`	The minimum weight of all links connecting patches between polygons
link	`linkIdMinWeight`	`minWt`	The link id of that minimum weight `link (lcpLinkId)`
link	`medianWeight`	`medWt`	The median weight of all links connecting patches between polygons
link	`meanWeight`	`meanWT`	The minimum weight of all links connecting patches between polygons
link	`numlinksWeight`	`numEWt`	The number of links connecting patches between polygons
link	`eucCentroidWeight`	`eucCtrWt`	The Euclidean distance between centroids of polygons

Arguments

x: A mpg or grain object
dirname: The name of a new directory to create. If NULL a directory with a name containing the date and time will be created.
path: A path to where this new directory dirname should be created. Defaults to the working directory.
rasterFormat: The format for exported rasters. See raster::writeFormats() for options. Defaults to GeoTiff (rasterFormat='GTiff'). Use rasterFormat='raster' to save .grd files in native raster package format.
overwrite: If directory already exists will overwrite existing files inside. Defaults to FALSE.
R: If TRUE, return the spatial objects that would be written to files. Do not write these files and ignore dirname, path, rasterFormat, overwrite parameters. This is useful for visualization using R plotting functions, or spatial analysis within R. Defaults to FALSE
vorBound: Specify whether to create a raster with the boundaries of the Voronoi polygons =1 and the remainder =NA. This may be useful for visualizing relationships among polygons in a grain of connectivity. This can add time to the export on very large rasters. Defaults to FALSE.
...: Additional arguments (not used).

Author

Paul Galpern and Alex Chubaty

Examples

Run this code

## Load raster landscape
tiny <- raster::raster(system.file("extdata/tiny.asc", package = "grainscape"))

## Create a resistance surface from a raster using an is-becomes reclassification
tinyCost <- raster::reclassify(tiny, rcl = cbind(c(1, 2, 3, 4), c(1, 5, 10, 12)))
## Produce a patch-based MPG where patches are resistance features=1
tinyPatchMPG <- MPG(cost = tinyCost, patch = tinyCost == 1)
## Extract a representative subset of 5 grains of connectivity
tinyPatchGOC <- GOC(tinyPatchMPG, nThresh = 5)
## Export rasters and vectors and place in an R object
sp_tinyPatchGOC <- export(grain(tinyPatchGOC, 2), R = TRUE)  # nolint
sp_tinyPatchMPG <- export(tinyPatchMPG, R = TRUE) # nolint

## Export raster and vectors to a specified directory
exportPath <- tempdir()
export(grain(tinyPatchGOC, 2), dirname = "tiny_goc_thresh2", path = exportPath)
export(tinyPatchMPG, dirname = "tiny_mpg", path = exportPath, vorBound = TRUE)

## clean up
unlink(file.path(exportPath, "tiny_goc_thresh2"), recursive = TRUE)
unlink(file.path(exportPath, "tiny_mpg"), recursive = TRUE)