rgdal (version 0.7-7)

showWKT: Show Well-Known Text spatial reference system metadata

Description

Use GDAL/OGR spatial reference objects to convert a PROJ.4 representation to a Well-Known Text representation.

Usage

showWKT(p4s, file = NULL, morphToESRI = TRUE)

Arguments

p4s

A valid PROJ.4 string representing a spatial reference system

file

if not NULL, a file name to which the output Well-Known Text representation should be written

morphToESRI

default TRUE, morph the WKT string to the representation used by ESRI

Value

• A character string containing the WKT representation of the PROJ.4 string.

References

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/osr_tutorial.html

See Also

is.projected, CRS-class

Examples

cities <- readOGR(system.file("vectors", package = "rgdal")[1], "cities")
readLines(system.file("vectors/cities.prj", package = "rgdal")[1])
showWKT(proj4string(cities))
showWKT("+init=epsg:28992")