raster: Create a RasterLayer Object from Mask or Dsurface

Description

Methods to convert secr object to a RasterLayer object.

Usage

# S4 method for mask
raster(x, covariate, values = 1, crs = NA)
# S4 method for Dsurface
raster(x, covariate, values = 1, crs = NA)
# S4 method for mask
rast(x, covariate, values = 1, crs = "")
# S4 method for Dsurface
rast(x, covariate, values = 1, crs = "")

Value

RasterLayer (raster)

Arguments

x: mask or Dsurface object
covariate: character name of covariate to provide values for RasterLayer
values: numeric values for RasterLayer
crs: character or object of class CRS. Optional PROJ.4 type description of a Coordinate Reference System (map projection).

Details

There are two ways to specify the values to be used. If covariate is provided then the values of the corresponding covariate of the mask or Dsurface are used. Otherwise, values is duplicated to the required number of rows.

The resulting RasterLayer may optionally include a PROJ.4 map projection defined via crs. The specification may be very simple (as in the example below) or complex, including an explicit datum and other arguments. Projections are used by sf, terra, raster, sp and other packages. See raster for further explanation and links.

The S3 classes `mask' and `Dsurface' are defined in secr as virtual S4 classes. This enables these extensions to the list of S4 methods defined in raster.

Although these methods work `standalone', it is currently necessary to load the terra or raster package to do much with the result (e.g., plot it).

Examples

Run this code


if (FALSE) {

shorePossums <- predictDsurface(possum.model.Ds)
tmp <- raster(shorePossums, covariate = "D.0")
library(raster)
plot(tmp, useRaster = FALSE)

## alternative with same result
tmp <- raster(shorePossums, values = covariates(shorePossums)$D.0)

## set the projection
## here the crs PROJ.4 spec refers simply to the old NZ metric grid
tmp <- raster(shorePossums, "D.0", crs = "+proj=nzmg")
## check the projection
proj4string(tmp)
     
}