raster (version 2.6-7)

projection: Get or set a coordinate reference system (projection)

Description

Get or set the coordinate reference system (CRS) of a Raster* object.

Usage

# S4 method for ANY
crs(x, asText=FALSE, ...)

crs(x) <- value

projection(x, asText=TRUE) projection(x) <- value

Arguments

x

Raster* or Spatial object

asText

logical. If TRUE, the projection is returned as text. Otherwise a CRS object is returned

...

additional arguments (not implemented)

value

CRS object or a character string describing a projection and datum in the PROJ.4 format

Value

Raster*, Spatial*, CRS, or character object

Details

projections are done by with the PROJ.4 library exposed by rgdal

See Also

projectRaster, CRS-class, spTransform-methods, projInfo

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
r <- raster()
crs(r)
crs(r) <- "+proj=lcc +lat_1=48 +lat_2=33 +lon_0=-100 +ellps=WGS84"
crs(r)
# }

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