read.asciigrid {sp} | R Documentation

## read/write to/from (ESRI) asciigrid format

### Description

read/write to/from ESRI asciigrid format

### Usage

    read.asciigrid(fname, as.image = FALSE, plot.image = FALSE, colname = fname,
     proj4string = CRS(as.character(NA)))
    write.asciigrid(x, fname, attr = 1, na.value = -9999, ...)

### Arguments

`fname` | file name
`as.image` | logical; if FALSE, a list is returned, ready to be shown with the `image` command; if FALSE an object of class SpatialGridDataFrame-class is returned
`plot.image` | logical; if TRUE, an image of the map is plotted
`colname` | alternative name for data column if not file name
`proj4string` | A CRS object setting the projection arguments of the Spatial Grid returned
`x` | object of class SpatialGridDataFrame
`attr` | attribute column; if missing, the first column is taken; a name or a column number may be given
`na.value` | numeric; value given to missing valued cells in the resulting map
`...` | arguments passed to write.table, which is used to write the numeric data

### Value

`read.asciigrid` returns the grid map read; either as an object of class SpatialGridDataFrame-class or, if as.image is TRUE, as list with components `x`, `y` and {z}.

### Author(s)

Edzer J. Pebesma, e.pebesma@geo.uu.nl

### See Also

as.image.SpatialGridDataFrame, image

### Examples

    x <- read.asciigrid(system.file("external/test.ag", package="sp")[1])
    class(x)
    image(x)

[Package sp version 0.7-12 Index]