raster (version 2.0-12)

expand: Expand

Description

Expand returns an Raster* object with a larger spatial extent. The output Raster object has the outer minimum and maximum coordinates of the input Raster and Extent arguments. Thus, all of the cells of the original raster are included. See crop if you (also) want to remove rows or columns. There is also an expand method for extent objects to enlarge (or reduce) an Extent. You can also use algebraic notation to do that (see examples)

Usage

## S3 method for class 'Raster':
expand(x, y, value=NA, filename='', ...) 

## S3 method for class 'Extent':
expand(x, y, ...)

Arguments

x

Raster or Extent object

y

If x is a Raster object, y should be an Extent object, or any object that is or has an Extent object, or an object from which it can be extracted (such as sp objects). Alternatively, you can provide a vector of length 2 with the

value

value to assign to new cells

filename

Character (optional)

...

Additional arguments as for writeRaster

Value

• RasterLayer or RasterBrick, or Extent

See Also

crop, merge

Examples

r <- raster(xmn=-150, xmx=-120, ymx=60, ymn=30, ncol=36, nrow=18)
r[] <- 1:ncell(r)
e <- extent(-180, 0, 0, 90)
re <- expand(r, e)

# expand with a number of rows and columns (at each side)
re2 <- expand(r, c(2,10))

# Extent object
e <- extent(r)
e
expand(e, 10)
expand(e, 10, -10, 0, 20)
e + 10
e * 2