list.raster.files: Spiders a directory for raster files.
In spatial.tools: R Functions for Working with Spatial Data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Spiders a directory for raster files.

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list.raster.files(path = ".", pattern = NULL, recursive = FALSE,
  return_rasters = FALSE, return_bbox = TRUE,
  bbox_CRS = CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0"))

`path`	Character. The path to search for raster files.
`pattern`	Character. A regular expression to limit the files that are tested/returned.
`recursive`	Logical. Search nested subdirectories within the path?
`return_rasters`	Logical. Return all proper files as RasterBrick objects (TRUE) or as filenames (FALSE).
`return_bbox`	Logical. Return a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with the bounding box geometry and the filenames as data.frame attributes.
`bbox_CRS`	CRS. If return_bbox==TRUE, the CRS that the output bbox SpatialPolygonsDataFrame should be in.

This function searches through a path (potentially recursively), and returns the filename and/or a brick for each file that can be coerced safely to a RasterBrick object. Note that given different flavors of GDAL, this may return different results for the same directory on different computers. If a foreach parallel backend has been registered, the spidering will use parallel processing to check each file, potentially speeding it up.

A list of filenames (return_rasters=FALSE) or a list of RasterBricks (return_rasters=TRUE) and/or a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of the bounding boxes (return_bbox==TRUE).

Jonathan A. Greenberg

brick,list.files

{ 
search_folder <- system.file("external/", package="spatial.tools")
# sfQuickInit() # To potentially speed the search up.
list.raster.files(path=search_folder)
list.raster.files(path=search_folder,return_rasters=TRUE)
# sfQuickStop() 
}