ddbs_bbox: Get the bounding box of geometries

In duckspatial: R Interface to 'DuckDB' Database with Spatial Extension

Get the bounding box of geometries

Description

Returns the minimal rectangle that encloses the geometry

Usage

ddbs_bbox(
  x,
  by_feature = FALSE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

x	Input spatial data. Can be: A duckspatial_df object (lazy spatial data frame via dbplyr) An sf object A tbl_lazy from dbplyr A character string naming a table/view in conn Data is returned from this object.
by_feature	Logical. If TRUE, the geometric operation is applied separately to each geometry. If FALSE, the geometric operation is applied to the data as a whole.
conn	A connection object to a DuckDB database. If NULL, the function runs on a temporary DuckDB database.
name	A character string of length one specifying the name of the table, or a character string of length two specifying the schema and table names. If NULL (the default), the function returns the result as an sf object
mode	Character. Controls the return type. Options: "duckspatial" (default): Lazy spatial data frame backed by dbplyr/DuckDB "sf": Eagerly collected sf object (uses memory) Can be set globally via ddbs_options(mode = "...") or per-function via this argument. Per-function overrides global setting.
overwrite	Boolean. whether to overwrite the existing table if it exists. Defaults to FALSE. This argument is ignored when name is NULL.
quiet	A logical value. If TRUE, suppresses any informational messages. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A bbox numeric vector with by_feature = FALSE A data.frame or ⁠lazy tbl⁠ when by_feature = TRUE

Examples

## Not run: 
## load packages
library(duckspatial)

## read data
argentina_ddbs <- ddbs_open_dataset(
  system.file("spatial/argentina.geojson", 
  package = "duckspatial")
)

# option 1: passing sf objects
ddbs_bbox(argentina_ddbs)

## option 2: passing the names of tables in a duckdb db

# creates a duckdb write sf to it
conn <- duckspatial::ddbs_create_conn()
ddbs_write_table(conn, argentina_ddbs, "argentina_tbl", overwrite = TRUE)

output2 <- ddbs_bbox(
    conn = conn,
    x = "argentina_tbl",
    name = "argentina_bbox"
)

DBI::dbReadTable(conn, "argentina_bbox")

## End(Not run)

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