blockSize function

Block size for writing files

This function can be used to suggest chunk sizes (always a number of entire rows), and corresponding row numbers, to be used when processing Raster* objects in chunks. Normally used together with writeValues.

## S4 method for signature 'Raster'
blockSize(x, chunksize, n=nlayers(x), minblocks=4, minrows=1)

Arguments

• x: Raster* object
• chunksize: Integer, normally missing. Can be used to set the block size; unit is number of cells. Block size is then computed in units of number of rows (always >= 1)
• n: Integer. number of layers to consider. The function divides chunksize by n to determine blocksize
• minblocks: Integer. Minimum number of blocks
• minrows: Integer. Minimum number of rows in each block

Returns

A list with three elements:

rows, the suggested row numbers at which to start the blocks for reading and writing,

nrows, the number of rows in each block, and,

n, the total number of blocks

See Also

writeValues

Examples

r <- raster(system.file("external/test.grd", package="raster"))
blockSize(r)