st_transform_proj function

Transform or convert coordinates of simple features directly with Proj.4 (bypassing GDAL)

Transform or convert coordinates of simple features directly with Proj.4 (bypassing GDAL)

st_transform_proj(x, crs, ...) ## S3 method for class 'sfc' st_transform_proj(x, crs, ...) ## S3 method for class 'sf' st_transform_proj(x, crs, ...) ## S3 method for class 'sfg' st_transform_proj(x, crs, ...)

Arguments

  • x: object of class sf, sfc or sfg
  • crs: character; target CRS, or, in case of a length 2 character vector, source and target CRS
  • ...: ignored

Details

Transforms coordinates of object to new projection, using PROJ directly rather than the GDAL API used by st_transform .

If crs is a single CRS, it forms the target CRS, and in that case the source CRS is obtained as st_crs(x). Since this presumes that the source CRS is accepted by GDAL (which is not always the case), a second option is to specify the source and target CRS as two proj4strings in argument crs. In the latter case, st_crs(x) is ignored and may well be NA.

The st_transform_proj method for sfg objects assumes that the CRS of the object is available as an attribute of that name.

Examples

library(sf) p1 = st_point(c(7,52)) p2 = st_point(c(-30,20)) sfc = st_sfc(p1, p2, crs = 4326) sfc st_transform_proj(sfc, "+proj=wintri") library(sf) nc = st_read(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package="sf")) st_transform_proj(nc[1,], "+proj=wintri +over") st_transform_proj(structure(p1, proj4string = "+init=epsg:4326"), "+init=epsg:3857")