terra (version 1.2-5)

writeVector: Write SpatVector data to a file

Description

Write a SpatVector to a file. You can choose one of many file formats.

Usage

# S4 method for SpatVector,character
writeVector(x, filename, filetype="ESRI Shapefile", overwrite=FALSE)

Arguments

x

SpatVector

filename

character. Output filename

filetype

character. A file format associated with a GDAL "driver". See gdal(drivers=TRUE)

overwrite

logical. If TRUE, filename is overwritten

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)
# }