R: Metadata

metadata {raster} | R Documentation

## Metadata

### Description

Get or set a metadata to a Raster object

### Usage

    metadata(x)
    metadata(x) <- value

### Arguments

`x` | Raster* object
`value` | list with named elements. Each element may be another list of named elements (but these nested lists are not allowed to be lists themselves)

### Value

Raster* object or list

### Note

The matadata can contain single values or vectors of basic data types (character, integer, numeric) and Date. Some other types may also be supported. You cannot use a matrix or data.frame as a meta-data element.

### Examples

    r <- raster(nc=10, nr=10)
    r[] <- 1:ncell(r)

    m <- list(wave=list(a=1, b=2, c=c('cool', 'important')), that=list(red='44', blue=1:5,
           days=as.Date(c('2014-1-15','2014-2-15'))), this='888 miles from here', today=NA)

    metadata(r) <- m
    x <- writeRaster(r, 'test.grd', overwrite=TRUE)
    metax <- metadata(x)

    identical(metax, m)

    ## Not run:
    # nested too deep
    badmeta1 <- list(wave=list(a=1, b=2, c='x'), that=list(red='4', blue=list(bad=5)))
    metadata(r) <- badmeta1

    # missing names
    badmeta2 <- list(wave=list(1, 2, c='x'), that=list(red='44', blue=14), this='8m')
    metadata(r) <- badmeta2

    # matrix not allowed
    badmeta3 <- list(wave=list(a=1, b=matrix(1:4, ncol=2), c='x'), that=list(red='4'))
    metadata(r) <- badmeta3

    ## End(Not run)

[Package raster version 2.5-8 Index]