rpygeo_save {RPyGeo}

Save temporary raster to workspace

Description

This function saves temporary a raster as permanent raster to the workspace.

Usage

rpygeo_save(data, filename)

Arguments

data

reticulate object or full path of the ArcPy function output

filename

Filename with extension or without extension if the workspace is file geodatabase

Details

Some ArcPy functions have no parameter to specify an output raster. Instead they return a raster object and a temporary raster is saved to the scratch workspace. This functions writes the temporary raster as a permanent raster to the workspace.

How the file is written depends on the workspace and scratch workspace environment settings.

• Workspace and scratch workspace are directories: Raster is loaded with the raster package and is written to workspace directory. The file format is inferred from the file extension in the filename parameter.

• Workspace and scratch workspace are file geodatabases: Raster is copied to workspace file geodatabase. No file extension necessary for the filename parameter.

• Workspace is file geodatabase and scratch workspace is directory: Raster is copied to workspace file geodatabase. No file extension necessary for the filename parameter.

• Workspace is directory and scratch workspace is file geodatabase: Raster is exported to workspace directory. The filename parameter is ignored due to restrictions in arcpy.RasterToOtherFormat_conversion function. If the automatically generated filename already exists, a number is appended to the end of the filename.

Author(s)

Marc Becker

Examples

## Not run: 
# Load packages
library(RPyGeo)
library(RQGIS)
library(magrittr)

# Get data
data(dem, package = "RQGIS")

# Load the ArcPy module and build environment
arcpy <- arcpy_build_env(overwrite = TRUE, workspace = tempdir())

# Write raster to workspace directory
writeRaster(dem, file.path(tempdir(), "dem.tif"), format = "GTiff")

# Calculate temporary aspect file and save to workspace
arcpy$sa$Aspect(in_raster = "dem.tif") %>%
  rpygeo_save("aspect.tif")

## End(Not run)