util_writeESRI: util_writeESRI

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util_writeESRI

Description

Export raster objects as ESRI ascii files.

Usage

util_writeESRI(x, filepath)

## S3 method for class 'RasterLayer'
util_writeESRI(x, filepath)

Arguments

x	Raster* object
filepath	path where to write the raster to file

Details

raster::writeRaster or SDMTools::write.asc both export files that are recognised by most GIS software, nevertheless they both have UNIX linebreaks. Some proprietary software (like SPIP for example) require an exact 1:1 replica of the output of ESRI's ArcMap, which as a Windows software has no carriage returns at the end of each line. util_writeESRI should therefore only be used if you need this, otherwise raster::writeRaster is the better fit for exporting raster data in R.

Value

No return value, called for the side effect of writing an ESRI ASCII raster file to filepath.

Examples

filepath <- tempfile(fileext = ".asc")
util_writeESRI(gradient_landscape, filepath)
unlink(filepath)

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