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writeFormats

File types for writing

Description

List supported file types for writing RasterLayer values to disk.

When a function writes a file to disk, the file format is determined by the 'format=' argument if supplied, or else by the file extension (if the extension is known). If other cases the default format is used. The 'factory-fresh' default format is 'raster', but this can be changed using rasterOptions.

Usage

writeFormats()

Details

writeFormats returns a matrix of the file formats (the "drivers") that are supported.

Supported formats include:

File type Long name default extension Multiband support
raster 'Native' raster package format .grd Yes
ascii ESRI Ascii .asc No
SAGA SAGA GIS .sdat No
IDRISI IDRISI .rst No
CDF netCDF (requires ncdf4) .nc Yes
GTiff GeoTiff (requires rgdal) .tif Yes
ENVI ENVI .hdr Labelled .envi Yes
EHdr ESRI .hdr Labelled .bil Yes
HFA Erdas Imagine Images (.img) .img Yes

See Also

Examples

writeFormats()
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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