copyRasterFile: Copy or move a raster file

Description

Move, copy or remove 'raster' format files that are associated with the RasterLayer object.

Usage

moveRasterFile(raster, filename, overwrite=FALSE)
copyRasterFile(raster, filename, overwrite=FALSE)
removeRasterFile(raster)

Arguments

raster

RasterLayer object that is associated with a file on disk

filename

New filename

overwrite

Logical. If TRUE existing files are overwritten

Value

a RasterLayer

Details

removeRasterFile can also take a filename as argument in stead of a RasterLayer.

Examples

Run this code

r <- raster(system.file("external/test.grd", package="raster"))
r <- saveAs(r, filename='test.grd', format='raster', overwrite=TRUE)
rc <- copyRasterFile(r, filename='test2.grd', overwrite=TRUE)
rm <- moveRasterFile(r, filename='test3.grd', overwrite=TRUE)

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