describe: describe

Description

Describe the properties of spatial data in a file as generated with the "GDALinfo" tool.

# S4 method for character
describe(x, sds=FALSE, meta=FALSE, parse=FALSE, options="", print=FALSE, open_opt="")

character (invisibly, if print=FALSE)

x: character. The name of a file with spatial data. Or a fully specified subdataset within a file such as "NETCDF:\"AVHRR.nc\":NDVI"
sds: logical. If TRUE the description or metadata of the subdatasets is returned (if available)
meta: logical. Get the file level metadata instead
parse: logical. If TRUE, metadata for subdatasets is parsed into components (if meta=TRUE)
options: character. A vector of valid options (if meta=FALSE) including "json", "mm", "stats", "hist", "nogcp", "nomd", "norat", "noct", "nofl", "checksum", "proj4", "listmdd", "mdd <value>" where <value> specifies a domain or 'all', "wkt_format <value>" where value is one of 'WKT1', 'WKT2', 'WKT2_2015', or 'WKT2_2018', "sd <subdataset>" where <subdataset> is the name or identifier of a sub-dataset. See https://gdal.org/programs/gdalinfo.html. Ignored if sds=TRUE
print: logical. If TRUE, print the results
open_opt: character. Driver specific open options

f <- system.file("ex/elev.tif", package="terra")
describe(f)
describe(f, meta=TRUE)
#g <- describe(f, options=c("json", "nomd", "proj4"))
#head(g)

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