sf (version 0.4-3)

st_geometry: Get, set, or replace geometry from an sf object

Description

Get, set, or replace geometry from an sf object

Usage

# S3 method for sfc
st_geometry(obj, ...)
st_geometry(obj, ...)
# S3 method for sf
st_geometry(obj, ...)
# S3 method for sfc
st_geometry(obj, ...)
# S3 method for sfg
st_geometry(obj, ...)
st_geometry(x) <- value
st_set_geometry(x, value)

Arguments

obj

object of class sf or sfc

...

ignored

x

object of class data.frame

value

object of class sfc, or character

Value

st_geometry returns an object of class sfc, a list-column with geometries

st_geometry returns an object of class sfc. Assigning geometry to a data.frame creates an sf object, assigning it to an sf object replaces the geometry list-column.

Details

when applied to a data.frame and when value is an object of class sfc, st_set_geometry and st_geomtry<- will first check for the existance of an attribute sf_column and overwrite that, or else look for list-columns of class sfc and overwrite the first of that, or else write the geometry list-column to a column named geometry. In case value is character and x is of class sf, the "active" geometry column is set to x[[value]].

the replacement function applied to sf objects will overwrite the geometry list-column, if value is NULL, it will remove it and coerce x to a data.frame.

Examples

df = data.frame(a = 1:2)
sfc = st_sfc(st_point(c(3,4)), st_point(c(10,11)))
st_geometry(sfc)
st_geometry(df) <- sfc
class(df)
st_geometry(df)
st_geometry(df) <- sfc # replaces
st_geometry(df) <- NULL # remove geometry, coerce to data.frame
sf <- st_set_geometry(df, sfc) # set geometry, return sf
st_set_geometry(sf, NULL) # remove geometry, coerce to data.frame