st_precision | R Documentation |
Get precision
Set precision
st_precision(x)
st_set_precision(x, precision)
st_precision(x) <- value
x |
object of class |
precision |
numeric, or object of class |
value |
precision value |
If precision
is a units
object, the object on which we set precision must have a coordinate reference system with compatible distance units.
Setting a precision
has no direct effect on coordinates of geometries, but merely set an attribute tag to an sfc
object.
The effect takes place in st_as_binary or, more precise, in the C++ function CPL_write_wkb
, where simple feature geometries are being serialized to well-known-binary (WKB).
This happens always when routines are called in GEOS library (geometrical operations or predicates), for writing geometries using st_write or write_sf, st_make_valid
in package lwgeom
; also aggregate and summarise by default union geometries, which calls a GEOS library function.
Routines in these libraries receive rounded coordinates, and possibly return results based on them. st_as_binary contains an example of a roundtrip of sfc
geometries through WKB, in order to see the rounding happening to R data.
The reason to support precision is that geometrical operations in GEOS or liblwgeom may work better at reduced precision. For writing data from R to external resources it is harder to think of a good reason to limiting precision.
st_as_binary for an explanation of what setting precision does, and the examples therein.
x <- st_sfc(st_point(c(pi, pi)))
st_precision(x)
st_precision(x) <- 0.01
st_precision(x)
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