Write sf object directly to `GRASS` vector utilising an existing or creating a new GRASS environment

Write sf object directly to `GRASS` vector utilising an existing or creating a new GRASS environment

Usage

sf2gvec(x, epsg, obj_name, gisdbase, location, gisdbase_exist = FALSE)

Arguments

x

sf object corresponding to the settings of the corresponding GRASS container

epsg

numeric epsg code

obj_name

name of GRASS layer

gisdbase

GRASS gisDbase folder

location

GRASS location name containing obj_name)

gisdbase_exist

logical switch if the GRASS gisdbase folder exist default is TRUE

Note

have a look at the sf capabilities to write direct to sqlite

Author

Chris Reudenbach

Examples

run = FALSE
if (run) {
## example 
require(sf)
require(sp)
require(link2GI)
data(meuse)
meuse_sf = st_as_sf(meuse, 
                    coords = c('x', 'y'), 
                    crs = 28992, 
                    agr = 'constant')


# write data to GRASS and create gisdbase
sf2gvec(x = meuse_sf,
        obj_name = 'meuse_R-G',
        gisdbase = '~/temp3/',
        location = 'project1')

# read from existing GRASS          
gvec2sf(x = meuse_sf,
        obj_name = 'meuse_r_g',
        gisdbase = '~/temp3',       
        location = 'project1')

}