ddbs_coord_bounds: Coordinate bounds of geometries

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

Coordinate bounds of geometries

Description

Returns the minimum or maximum value of a specific coordinate axis across all points of a geometry. When by_feature = TRUE (default), a value is computed per row. When by_feature = FALSE, a single global value is returned for the entire dataset.

Usage

ddbs_xmax(
  x,
  new_column = "xmax",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_xmin(
  x,
  new_column = "xmin",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_ymax(
  x,
  new_column = "ymax",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_ymin(
  x,
  new_column = "ymin",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_zmax(
  x,
  new_column = "zmax",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_zmin(
  x,
  new_column = "zmin",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_mmax(
  x,
  new_column = "mmax",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  conn = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  mode = NULL,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

ddbs_mmin(
  x,
  new_column = "mmin",
  by_feature = TRUE,
  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.
new_column	Name of the new column. Defaults to the lowercase function name (e.g. "xmax", "xmin", "ymax", ...).
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.

Details

• ddbs_xmax() / ddbs_xmin(): maximum / minimum X coordinate.

• ddbs_ymax() / ddbs_ymin(): maximum / minimum Y coordinate.

• ddbs_zmax() / ddbs_zmin(): maximum / minimum Z coordinate.

• ddbs_mmax() / ddbs_mmin(): maximum / minimum M (measure) coordinate.

When by_feature = FALSE, the result is always a single numeric scalar representing the global extreme across the entire dataset.

Value

• by_feature = TRUE and mode = "duckspatial" (default): A duckspatial_df.

• by_feature = TRUE and mode = "sf": A numeric vector.

• by_feature = FALSE: A single numeric scalar.

• When name is provided: writes the table in DuckDB and returns TRUE (invisibly).

Examples

## Not run: 
library(duckspatial)

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

## per-feature X extent (default)
ddbs_xmax(argentina_ddbs)
ddbs_xmin(argentina_ddbs)

## global bounding values
ddbs_xmax(argentina_ddbs, by_feature = FALSE)
ddbs_ymin(argentina_ddbs, by_feature = FALSE)

## End(Not run)

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