R: Character representation of a Raster or Extent object

as.character {raster} | R Documentation

## 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))

[Package raster version 3.5-15 Index]