wkt: Convert to WKT

In mdsumner/howzat: Convert Spatial Objects to 'Well-known text'

Description

Convert to Well-Known-Text geometry string format.

Usage

wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'POINT'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'MULTIPOINT'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'LINESTRING'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'MULTILINESTRING'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'POLYGON'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'MULTIPOLYGON'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'sfc'
wkt(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'sf'
wkt(x, ...)

Arguments

x	object to format as WKT
...	ignored

Details

Methods exist for the simple features types.

Note, this is not the 'WKT' specification for a coordinate reference sytem (map projection), it's a geometry encoding for points, lines, and polygons.

Examples

wkt(sfobj)
wkt(sfobj$geom)
wkt(sfobj$geom[[2]])

mdsumner/howzat documentation built on Nov. 5, 2019, 2:43 p.m.