create_buffer: Function to create a buffer around a SpatialPolygons or...

In validmeasures/spatialsampler: An Implementation of the Centric Systematic Area Sampling (CSAS) and Simple Spatial Sampling Method (S3M) sampling approaches in R

Description

Function to create a buffer around a SpatialPolygons or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object. This is a wrapper for gBuffer() function from package rgeos adding transformation of planar coordinates to appropriate projected coordinates to enable creation of buffer.

Usage

create_buffer(x, buffer, country)

Arguments

x	A class SpatialPolygons or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object defining the area to be buffered
buffer	A numeric value for distance (in kilometres) to expand the borders of the given spatial object x. Negative values allowed.
country	Name of country where sampling area is located. This is used to determine the appropriate UTM projection to transform x

Value

A SpatialPolygons with the same CRS as x

Examples

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