rangeMapper (version 0.3-0)

global.bbox.save: Global bounding box

Description

Computes, sets or retrieves the global spatial bounding box.

Usage

global.bbox.save(con, ...)
global.bbox.fetch(con)

Arguments

con

An SQLiteConnection object pointing to a rangeMapper project

...

Arguments to pass to the corresponding methods: bbox can be a character vector; the path to the range files directory bbox can also be an object inheriting from Spatial p4s an object of class CRS

Details

global.bbox.save saves the global bounding box and the proj4 string to the sqlite database. global.bbox.fetch retrieves the global bounding box as a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame.

Examples

require(rangeMapper)
wd = tempdir()

f= system.file(package = "rangeMapper", "extdata", "wrens", "vector")

# Using default values for both bbox and p4s
dbcon = rangeMap.start(file = "test.sqlite", overwrite = TRUE, dir = wd )
global.bbox.save(con = dbcon)
bbox0 = global.bbox.fetch(dbcon)

plot(bbox0, axes = TRUE)