ursa (version 3.11.1)

spatial_write: Wrapper functions for writing spatial objects.

Description

Write spatial object to disk. If spatial object is Simple Features, then appropriate functions from package sf are used. If spatial objest are abstract of class Spatial (package sp) then preliminarly transformation to Simple Features is performed.

Usage

spatial_write(obj, fname, layer, driver = NA, compress = "", verbose = FALSE)

Value

invisible NULL.

Arguments

obj

Spatial object: Either Simple Features (sf) or Spatial Abstract (sp). List of spatial objects can be used.

fname

Character. File name with or without extension. If extension is missed, then argument driver must be specified.

layer

Character. Layer name. If missed, then basename of fname is used.

driver

Character. Driver for specification of output file format. Default is NA; value is determined from extension of fname.

compress

Character or logical. Will output file or list of files be packed after writing and what archive format will be used. Available character values are "" (default; no compression), "gz", "gzip", "bz2", "bzip2", "zip", "xz". If logical and TRUE, then "zip" is used for driver "ESRI Shapefile" and "gzip" otherwise. If logical and FALSE, then no compression.

verbose

Logical. Value TRUE provides information on console. Default is FALSE.

Author

Nikita Platonov

Details

Based on sf::st_write function with additonal options: compressing of output file(s), coordinates trasforming (to longitudes and latitudes for driver="GeoJSON"), creating multi-layer destination (for driver="SQLite").

See Also

write_sf

spatial_read

Examples

session_grid(NULL)
n <- 1e2
x <- runif(n,min=25,max=65)
y <- runif(n,min=55,max=65)
z <- runif(n,min=1,max=10)
da <- data.frame(x=x,y=y,z=z)
if (requireNamespace("sf",quietly=TRUE)) {
   obj1 <- sf::st_as_sf(da,coords=c("x","y"),crs=4326)
   print(series(obj1))
   fname1 <- file.path(tempdir(),"res1.shp")
   print(fname1)
   spatial_write(obj1,fname1)
   res1 <- spatial_read(fname1,engine="sf")
   print(series(res1))
}
print(spatial_dir(tempdir()))