R: Select cell values from a multi-layer Raster* object

stackSelect {raster} | R Documentation

## Select cell values from a multi-layer Raster* object

### Description

Use a Raster* object to select cell values from different layers in a multi-layer Raster* object. The object to select values `y` should have values between `1` and `nlayers(x)`. The values of `y` are rounded.

See `extract` for extraction of values by cell, point, or otherwise.

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'RasterStackBrick,Raster'
    stackSelect(x, y, recycle=FALSE, type='index', filename='', ...)

### Arguments

`x` | RasterStack or RasterBrick object
`y` | Raster* object
`recycle` | Logical. Recursively select values (default = `FALSE`. Only relevant if `y` has multiple layers. E.g. if `x` has 12 layers, and `y` has 4 layers, the indices of the `y` layers are used three times.
`type` | Character. Only relevant when `recycle=TRUE`. Can be 'index' or 'truefalse'. If it is 'index', the cell values of `y` should represent layer numbers. If it is 'truefalse' layer numbers are indicated by 0 (not used, NA returned) and 1 (used)
`filename` | Character. Output filename (optional)
`...` | Additional arguments as for `writeRaster`

### Value

Raster* object

### See Also

`stackApply`, `extract`

### Examples

    r <- raster(ncol=10, nrow=10, vals=1)
    s <- stack(r, r+2, r+5)
    values(r) <- round((runif(ncell(r)))*3)
    x <- stackSelect(s, r)

[Package raster version 3.5-15 Index]