R/gdal_grid.R

In gdalUtilities: Wrappers for 'GDAL' Utilities Executables

##' This function provides an interface mirroring that of the GDAL
##' command-line app \code{gdal_grid}. For a description of the
##' utility and the arguments that it takes, see the documentation at
##' \url{https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_grid.html}.
##'
##' @title Interface to GDAL's gdal_grid utility
##' @param src_datasource Character. Path to a GDAL-supported readable
##'     datasource.
##' @param dst_filename Character. Path to a GDAL-supported output
##'     file.
##' @param ... Here, a placeholder argument that forces users to
##'     supply exact names of all subsequent formal arguments.
##' @param ot,of,txe,tye,tr,outsize,a_srs,zfield,z_increase,z_multiply
##'     See the GDAL project's
##'     \href{https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_grid.html}{gdal_grid
##'     documentation} for details.
##' @param a,spat,clipsrc,clipsrcsql,clipsrclayer,clipsrcwhere See the
##'     GDAL project's
##'     \href{https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_grid.html}{gdal_grid
##'     documentation} for details.
##' @param l,where,sql,co,q See the GDAL project's
##'     \href{https://gdal.org/programs/gdal_grid.html}{gdal_grid
##'     documentation} for details.
##' @param dryrun Logical (default \code{FALSE}). If \code{TRUE},
##'     instead of executing the requested call to GDAL, the function
##'     will print the command-line call that would produce the
##'     equivalent output.
##' @param config_options A named character vector with GDAL config
##'     options, of the form \code{c(option1=value1, option2=value2)}. (See
##'     \href{https://gdal.org/user/configoptions.html}{here} for a
##'     complete list of supported config options.)
##' @return Silently returns path to \code{dst_filename}.
##' @importFrom sf gdal_utils
##' @export
##' @author Joshua O'Brien
##' @examples
##' \donttest{
##' ## Set up file paths
##' td <- tempdir()
##' dem_file <- file.path(td, "dem.csv")
##' vrt_header_file <- file.path(td, "tmp.vrt")
##' out_raster <- file.path(td, "tmp.tiff")
##'
##' ## Create file of points with x-, y-, and z-coordinates
##' pts <-
##'     data.frame(Easting = c(86943.4, 87124.3, 86962.4, 87077.6),
##'                Northing = c(891957, 892075, 892321, 891995),
##'                Elevation = c(139.13, 135.01, 182.04, 135.01))
##' write.csv(pts, file = dem_file, row.names = FALSE)
##'
##' ## Prepare a matching VRT file
##' vrt_header <- c(
##' '<OGRVRTDataSource>',
##' '  <OGRVRTLayer name="dem">',
##' paste0('    <SrcDataSource>',dem_file,'</SrcDataSource>'),
##' '    <GeometryType>wkbPoint</GeometryType>',
##' '    <GeometryField encoding="PointFromColumns" x="Easting" y="Northing" z="Elevation"/>',
##' '  </OGRVRTLayer>',
##' '</OGRVRTDataSource>'
##' )
##' cat(vrt_header, file = vrt_header_file, sep = "\n")
##'
##' ## Test it out
##' gdal_grid(src_datasource = vrt_header_file,
##'           dst_filename = out_raster,
##'           a = "invdist:power=2.0:smoothing=1.0",
##'           txe = c(85000, 89000), tye = c(894000, 890000),
##'           outsize = c(400, 400),
##'           of = "GTiff", ot = "Float64", l = "dem")
##'
##' ## Check that it works
##' if(requireNamespace("terra", quietly = TRUE)) {
##'     library(terra)
##'     plot(rast(out_raster))
##'     text(Northing ~ Easting, data = pts,
##'          labels = seq_len(nrow(pts)), cex = 0.7)
##' }
##' }
gdal_grid <-
    function(src_datasource, dst_filename, ..., ot, of, txe, tye, tr,
             outsize, a_srs, zfield, z_increase, z_multiply, a, spat,
             clipsrc, clipsrcsql, clipsrclayer, clipsrcwhere, l,
             where, sql, co, q,
             config_options = character(0), dryrun = FALSE)
{
    ## Unlike `as.list(match.call())`, forces eval of arguments
    args <-  mget(names(match.call())[-1])
    args[c("src_datasource", "dst_filename", "config_options", "dryrun")] <- NULL
    formalsTable <- getFormalsTable("gdal_grid")
    opts <- process_args(args, formalsTable)

    if(dryrun) {
        x <- CLI_call("gdal_grid", src_datasource, dst_filename, opts=opts)
        return(x)
    }

    gdal_utils("grid",
               source = src_datasource,
               destination = dst_filename,
               options = opts,
               config_options = config_options)
    invisible(dst_filename)
}