vAttachDatabase: Add a database table to a GRASS attribute table

In adamlilith/fasterRaster: Faster Raster and Spatial Vector Processing Using 'GRASS GIS'

Add a database table to a GRASS attribute table

Description

.vAttachDatabase() adds a table to a GRASS vector. This table is meant to be "invisible" to most users–they should use interact with attribute tables using the GVector slot ⁠@table⁠. Some functions require tables (e.g., extract() and spatSample()). This function is mostly of use to developers.

Usage

.vAttachDatabase(x, table = NULL, replace = TRUE, cats = NULL)

Arguments

x	A GVector or the name of a vector in GRASS.
table	Either NULL (default), or a data.frame or data.table, or a numeric or integer vector: If NULL, then a bare minimal table will be created with a column named cat, holding sequential integer values. If a data.frame or data.table and no column is named cat, one will be created with sequential integer values. If the table does have a column named cat, then it should have integer (not just numeric) values. If a vector, then these are coerced to type integer and used to define the cat column. There should be one row/value per geometry in x.
replace	Logical: If TRUE, replace the existing database connection.
cats	Either NULL (default), or an integer vector: This is provided as a means to save time by passing cats to this function if it has already been generated by a calling function.

Value

Invisibly returns the sources() name of a vector in GRASS.

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