open_app: Open a QGIS application

In RQGIS: Integrating R with QGIS

Description

open_app first sets all the correct paths to the QGIS Python binary, and secondly opens a QGIS application while importing the most common Python modules.

Usage

open_app(qgis_env = set_env())

Arguments

qgis_env

Environment settings containing all the paths to run the QGIS API. For more information, refer to set_env(). Basically, the function defines a few new environment variables which should not interfere with other settings.

Value

The function enables a 'tunnel' to the Python QGIS API.

Note

Please note that the function changes your environment settings via base::Sys.getenv() which is necessary to run the QGIS Python API.

Author(s)

Jannes Muenchow

Examples

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open_app()

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RQGIS documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:23 a.m.