terra (version 0.8-5)

writeVector: Write vector data to a file

Description

Write a SpatVector object to a file.

Usage

# S4 method for SpatVector,character
writeVector(x, filename, overwrite=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

SpatVector

filename

character. Output filename

overwrite

logical. If TRUE, filename is overwritten

...

additional arguments. None implemented

Value

SpatVector (invisibly). This function is used for the side-effect of writing values to a file.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
v <- vect(cbind(1:5,1:5))
crs(v) <- "+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84"
v$id <- 1:length(v)
v$name <- letters[1:length(v)]
tmpf1 <- tempfile()
writeVector(v, tmpf1)
x <- vect(tmpf1)

f <- system.file("ex/lux.shp", package="terra")
v <- vect(f)
tmpf2 <- tempfile()
writeVector(v, tmpf2)
y <- vect(tmpf2)
# }