05_gridSize: Save or retrieve the grid size from an 'rangeMapper' project.

In rangeMapper: A platform for the study of macroecology of life history traits

Description

Save or retrieve the grid size from the active sqlite database.

Usage

gridSize.save(con, ...) 
gridSize.fetch(con)

Arguments

con	A connection pointing to a valid rangeMapper project.
...	gridSize: A numeric vector of one unit length. See notes.

Value

gridSize.fetch

Returns a numeric vector of one unit length containing the grid size previously saved by gridSize.save

Note

If gridSize is not given the default grid size is computed based on the bounding box as the range of the smallest axis /100.

Author(s)

Mihai Valcu [e-mail]

References

Valcu, M., Dale, J. and Kempenaers, B. (2012) rangeMapper: A platform for the study of macroecology of life history traits. 21(9). (DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00739.x)

See Also

rangeMap.save. global.bbox

Examples

require(rangeMapper)
wd = tempdir()
dbcon = rangeMap.start(file = "test.sqlite", overwrite = TRUE, dir = wd )
global.bbox.save(con = dbcon)
gridSize.save(dbcon, gridSize = 2)

dbcon = rangeMap.start(file = "test.sqlite", overwrite = TRUE, dir = wd )
global.bbox.save(con = dbcon)
gridSize.save(dbcon)
gridSize.fetch(dbcon) #default grid size value

rangeMapper documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5 p.m.