raster (version 3.1-5)

as.character: Character representation of a Raster or Extent object

Description

as.character returns a text (R code) representation of a Raster* or Extent object. The main purpose of this is to allow quick generation of objects to use in examples on, for example, stackoverflow.com.

Usage

# S4 method for Raster
as.character(x, ...)
# S4 method for Extent
as.character(x, ...)

Arguments

x

Raster* or Extent object

...

additional arguments, none implemented

Value

character

Examples

# NOT RUN {
r <- raster(ncol=3, nrow=3)
values(r) <- 1:ncell(r)
as.character(r)
s <- stack(r, r)
as.character(s)
as.character(extent(s))

x <- as.character(s)
eval(parse(text=x))

y <- as.character(extent(s))
eval(parse(text=y))
# }