make_brick: Convenience function to make a RasterBrick

In ropenscilabs/timeraster: Time Series Rasters

Convenience function to make a RasterBrick

Description

Convenience function to make a RasterBrick

Usage

make_brick(x, ...)

Arguments

x	A file path, or a URL to a file
...	Further args passed on to brick

Value

An object of RasterBrick-class

See Also

brick

Examples

## Not run: 
zip <- system.file("examples", "prismrain.zip", package = "timeraster")
dir <- paste0(tempdir(), "/prismrain")
dir <- "prismrain"
dir.create(dir)
unzip(zip, exdir = dir)
files <- list.files(dir, full.names = TRUE, pattern = ".tif$", all.files = TRUE)

# Create raster stack from file paths
res <- make_brick(files[1])

# native if TRUE uses raster package, if FALSE uses rgdal
make_brick(files[1], native = FALSE)
make_brick(files[1], native = TRUE)

# from a NetCDF file
## dates available
url <- "ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/noaa.oisst.v2.highres/sst.day.mean.2016.v2.nc"
tf <- tempfile(fileext = ".nc")
download.file(url, tf, mode = 'wb')
x <- make_brick(tf)
time_raster(x)

nc <- system.file("examples", "prismrain.nc", package = "timeraster")
make_brick(nc)

## End(Not run)

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