This is a convenience wrapper function to import a GeoClass file as data frame into R. GeoClass files contain definitions
of SLC (Soil and Land use Crop) classes in twelve to 14 predefined columns, see
GeoClass.txt documentation.
ReadGeoClass returns a data frame with added attribute 'comment'.
Arguments
filename
Path to and file name of the GeoClass file to import. Windows users: Note that
Paths are separated by '/', not '\'.
encoding
Character string, encoding of non-ascii characters in imported text file. Particularly relevant when
importing files created under Windows (default encoding "Latin-1") in Linux (default encoding "UTF-8") and vice versa. See
also argument description in fread.
verbose
Print information on number of data columns in imported file.
Details
ReadGeoClass is a convenience wrapper function of fread, with treatment of leading
comment rows. Column names are created on import, optional comment rows are imported as strings in attribute 'comment'.
Optional inline comments (additional non-numeric columns) are automatically identified and imported along with data columns.