| st_as_sf {sf} | R Documentation | 
Convert foreign object to an sf object
Description
Convert foreign object to an sf object
Usage
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'data.frame'
st_as_sf(
  x,
  ...,
  agr = NA_agr_,
  coords,
  wkt,
  dim = "XYZ",
  remove = TRUE,
  na.fail = TRUE,
  sf_column_name = NULL
)
## S3 method for class 'sf'
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'sfc'
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'Spatial'
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'map'
st_as_sf(x, ..., fill = TRUE, group = TRUE)
## S3 method for class 'ppp'
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'psp'
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 'lpp'
st_as_sf(x, ...)
## S3 method for class 's2_geography'
st_as_sf(x, ..., crs = st_crs(4326))
Arguments
| x | object to be converted into an object class  | 
| ... | passed on to st_sf, might included named arguments  | 
| agr | character vector; see details section of st_sf | 
| coords | in case of point data: names or numbers of the numeric columns holding coordinates | 
| wkt | name or number of the character column that holds WKT encoded geometries | 
| dim | passed on to st_point (only when argument coords is given) | 
| remove | logical; when coords or wkt is given, remove these columns from data.frame? | 
| na.fail | logical; if  | 
| sf_column_name | character; name of the active list-column with simple feature geometries; in case
there is more than one and  | 
| fill | logical; the value for  | 
| group | logical; if  | 
| crs | coordinate reference system to be assigned; object of class  | 
Details
setting argument wkt annihilates the use of argument coords. If x contains a column called "geometry", coords will result in overwriting of this column by the sfc geometry list-column.  Setting wkt will replace this column with the geometry list-column, unless remove is FALSE.
Examples
pt1 = st_point(c(0,1))
pt2 = st_point(c(1,1))
st_sfc(pt1, pt2)
d = data.frame(a = 1:2)
d$geom = st_sfc(pt1, pt2)
df = st_as_sf(d)
d$geom = c("POINT(0 0)", "POINT(0 1)")
df = st_as_sf(d, wkt = "geom")
d$geom2 = st_sfc(pt1, pt2)
st_as_sf(d) # should warn
if (require(sp, quietly = TRUE)) {
 data(meuse, package = "sp")
 meuse_sf = st_as_sf(meuse, coords = c("x", "y"), crs = 28992, agr = "constant")
 meuse_sf[1:3,]
 summary(meuse_sf)
}
if (require(sp, quietly = TRUE)) {
x = rbind(c(-1,-1), c(1,-1), c(1,1), c(-1,1), c(-1,-1))
x1 = 0.1 * x + 0.1
x2 = 0.1 * x + 0.4
x3 = 0.1 * x + 0.7
y = x + 3
y1 = x1 + 3
y3 = x3 + 3
m = matrix(c(3, 0), 5, 2, byrow = TRUE)
z = x + m
z1 = x1 + m
z2 = x2 + m
z3 = x3 + m
p1 = Polygons(list( Polygon(x[5:1,]), Polygon(x2), Polygon(x3),
   Polygon(y[5:1,]), Polygon(y1), Polygon(x1), Polygon(y3)), "ID1")
p2 = Polygons(list( Polygon(z[5:1,]), Polygon(z2), Polygon(z3), Polygon(z1)),
  "ID2")
r = SpatialPolygons(list(p1,p2))
a = suppressWarnings(st_as_sf(r))
summary(a)
demo(meuse, ask = FALSE, echo = FALSE)
summary(st_as_sf(meuse))
summary(st_as_sf(meuse.grid))
summary(st_as_sf(meuse.area))
summary(st_as_sf(meuse.riv))
summary(st_as_sf(as(meuse.riv, "SpatialLines")))
pol.grd = as(meuse.grid, "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame")
# summary(st_as_sf(pol.grd))
# summary(st_as_sf(as(pol.grd, "SpatialLinesDataFrame")))
}
if (require(spatstat.geom)) {
  g = st_as_sf(gorillas)
  # select only the points:
  g[st_is(g, "POINT"),]
}
if (require(spatstat.linnet)) {
 data(chicago)
 plot(st_as_sf(chicago)["label"])
 plot(st_as_sf(chicago)[-1,"label"])
}