map.info: Retrieve metadata of a raster file from current GRASS...

In ENiRG: Ecological Niche in R and GRASS

Description

Metadata about GRASS environment and about a map (i.e., raster map resolution, type and range) will be returned as a list. User can choose GRASS format to store the information, i.e. in a .txt file, or to have output as a list in R.

Usage

map.info(map.name, format = "grass")

Arguments

map.name	character string. Name of a raster map stored in GRASS as returned from list.maps.
format	character string, by default "grass". Preferred output format between GRASS output format ("grass") and R list ("r").

Value

Return either a list or text.

Author(s)

Chiara Magliozzi [e-mail], Fernando Canovas [e-mail]

References

https://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/r.info.html

See Also

import.egvs, initGRASS

Examples

## Not run: 
# starting GRASS session
initGRASS("/usr/bin/grass-7.0.0", home=tempdir())
initGRASS("C:/GRASS", home=tempdir())

## Path to file
file1 <- paste(system.file(package = "ENiRG"),"/ext/tann.asc", sep="")
import.egvs(file1, "tann")

map.info("tann", format="r")


## End(Not run)

ENiRG documentation built on May 1, 2019, 9:15 p.m.