activeCat function

Active category

Get or set the active category of a multi-categorical SpatRaster layer methods

## S4 method for signature 'SpatRaster'
activeCat(x, layer=1)
## S4 replacement method for signature 'SpatRaster'
activeCat(x, layer=1)<-value

Arguments

• x: SpatRaster
• layer: positive integer, the layer number or name
• value: positive integer or character, indicating which column in the categories to use. Note that when a number is used this index is zero based, and "1" refers to the second column. This is because the first column of the categories has the cell values, not categorical labels

Returns

integer

See Also

levels, cats

Examples

set.seed(0)
r <- rast(nrows=10, ncols=10)
values(r) <- sample(3, ncell(r), replace=TRUE) + 10
d <- data.frame(id=11:13, cover=c("forest", "water", "urban"), letters=letters[1:3], value=10:12)
levels(r) <- d

activeCat(r)
activeCat(r) <- 3
activeCat(r)