sf (version 1.0-7)

st_make_grid: Create a regular tesselation over the bounding box of an sf or sfc object

Description

Create a square or hexagonal grid covering the bounding box of the geometry of an sf or sfc object

Usage

st_make_grid(
  x,
  cellsize = c(diff(st_bbox(x)[c(1, 3)]), diff(st_bbox(x)[c(2, 4)]))/n,
  offset = st_bbox(x)[c("xmin", "ymin")],
  n = c(10, 10),
  crs = if (missing(x)) NA_crs_ else st_crs(x),
  what = "polygons",
  square = TRUE,
  flat_topped = FALSE
)

Value

Object of class sfc (simple feature geometry list column) with, depending on what and square, square or hexagonal polygons, corner points of these polygons, or center points of these polygons.

Arguments

x

object of class sf or sfc

cellsize

target cellsize

offset

numeric of length 2; lower left corner coordinates (x, y) of the grid

n

integer of length 1 or 2, number of grid cells in x and y direction (columns, rows)

crs

object of class crs; coordinate reference system of the target of the target grid in case argument x is missing, if x is not missing, its crs is inherited.

what

character; one of: "polygons", "corners", or "centers"

square

logical; if FALSE, create hexagonal grid

flat_topped

logical; if TRUE generate flat topped hexagons, else generate pointy topped

Examples

plot(st_make_grid(what = "centers"), axes = TRUE)
plot(st_make_grid(what = "corners"), add = TRUE, col = 'green', pch=3)
sfc = st_sfc(st_polygon(list(rbind(c(0,0), c(1,0), c(1,1), c(0,0)))))
plot(st_make_grid(sfc, cellsize = .1, square = FALSE))
plot(sfc, add = TRUE)
# non-default offset:
plot(st_make_grid(sfc, cellsize = .1, square = FALSE, offset = c(0, .05 / (sqrt(3)/2))))
plot(sfc, add = TRUE)
nc = read_sf(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf"))
g = st_make_grid(nc)
plot(g)
plot(st_geometry(nc), add = TRUE)
# g[nc] selects cells that intersect with nc:
plot(g[nc], col = '#ff000088', add = TRUE)