extdata-gis: Convenience method for path to sample DEM and soils data

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Convenience method for path to sample DEM and soils data

Description

Get a file path to DEM.tif or STATSGO2.shp stored in extdata subfolder of whitebox package installation directory.

Usage

sample_dem_data(destfile = NULL, ...)

sample_soils_data(destfile = NULL, ...)

Arguments

destfile	Path to target location of sample data. Will be downloaded if does not exist. Defaults to file path of extdata subfolder of whitebox package installation directory.
...	additional arguments to file.copy() e.g. overwrite

Value

character.

Examples

if (check_whitebox_binary()) {
  wbt_slope(sample_dem_data(), output = "slope.tif")
}
unlink(c('slope.tif', 'settings.json'))

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