buffer_area: Get buffered area
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buffer_area

R Documentation

Get buffered area

Description

This function is deprecated because the functionality has been incorporated into the improved sfext::st_buffer_ext() function which uses a similar set of parameters.

Return an sf object of an area with a buffer applied to it. If no buffer distance is provided, a default buffer is calculated of one-eighth the diagonal distance of the bounding box (corner to corner) for the area. The metadata for the provided area remains the same.

Usage

buffer_area(area, dist = NULL, diag_ratio = NULL)

Arguments

`area`	sf object.
`dist`	buffer distance in meters. Optional.
`diag_ratio`	ratio to set map extent based diagonal distance of area's bounding box. Ignored when `dist` is provided.