raster (version 2.6-7)

as.raster: Coerce to a 'raster' object

Description

Implementation of the generic as.raster function to create a 'raster' (small r) object. NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the Raster* (big R) objects defined by the raster package! Such objects can be used for plotting with the rasterImage function.

Usage

as.raster(x, ...)

Arguments

x

RasterLayer object

...

Additional arguments.

maxpixels Integer. To regularly subsample very large objects

col Vector of colors. Default is col=rev(terrain.colors(255)))

Value

'raster' object

Examples

# NOT RUN {
r <- raster(ncol=3, nrow=3)
r[] <- 1:ncell(r)
as.raster(r)
# }