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as.character

Character representation of a Raster or Extent object


Description

as.character returns a text (R code) representation of a Raster* or Extent object. The main purpose of this is to allow quick generation of objects to use in examples on, for example, stackoverflow.com.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'Raster'
as.character(x, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'Extent'
as.character(x, ...)

Arguments

x

Raster* or Extent object

...

additional arguments, none implemented

Value

character

Examples

r <- raster(ncol=3, nrow=3)
values(r) <- 1:ncell(r)
as.character(r)
s <- stack(r, r)
as.character(s)
as.character(extent(s))

x <- as.character(s)
eval(parse(text=x))

y <- as.character(extent(s))
eval(parse(text=y))

raster

Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling

v3.4-10
GPL (>= 3)
Authors
Robert J. Hijmans [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-2872>), Jacob van Etten [ctb], Michael Sumner [ctb], Joe Cheng [ctb], Dan Baston [ctb], Andrew Bevan [ctb], Roger Bivand [ctb], Lorenzo Busetto [ctb], Mort Canty [ctb], Ben Fasoli [ctb], David Forrest [ctb], Aniruddha Ghosh [ctb], Duncan Golicher [ctb], Josh Gray [ctb], Jonathan A. Greenberg [ctb], Paul Hiemstra [ctb], Kassel Hingee [ctb], Institute for Mathematics Applied Geosciences [cph], Charles Karney [ctb], Matteo Mattiuzzi [ctb], Steven Mosher [ctb], Babak Naimi [ctb], Jakub Nowosad [ctb], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Oscar Perpinan Lamigueiro [ctb], Etienne B. Racine [ctb], Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Ashton Shortridge [ctb], Bill Venables [ctb], Rafael Wueest [ctb]
Initial release
2021-05-02

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