terra (version 1.7-65)

metags: Set or get metadata

Description

You can set arbitrary metadata to a SpatRaster using "name=value" tags.

Usage

# S4 method for SpatRaster
metags(x, layer=NULL)<-value
# S4 method for SpatRaster
metags(x, layer=NULL, name=NULL)

Value

SpatRaster (metags<-), or named character (metags)

Arguments

x

SpatRaster

layer

NULL or positive integer. If the value is NULL, the tags assigned or returned are for the SpatRaster. Otherwise for the layer number(s)

name

character

value

character of "name=value" or two-column matrix

Examples

r <- rast(ncol=5, nrow=5)
m <- cbind(c("one", "two", "three"), c("ABC", "123", "hello"))
metags(r) <- m
metags(r)

metags(r) <- c("another_tag=another_value", "one more=this value")
metags(r)

metags(r) <- c(another_tag="44", `one more`="that value")
metags(r)


metags(r, name="two")

# remove a tag
metags(r) <- cbind("one", "")
metags(r) <- "two="
metags(r)

# remove all metags
metags(r) <- NULL
metags(r)