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Get spatial extent

Source: R/utils-get-ext.R
get_ext.Rd

A class agnostic function to return the bounding extent (i.e. bounding box) of a spatial object.

Usage

get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'SpatRaster'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'SpatVector'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'sf'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'sfc'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'stars'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'stars_proxy'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'ezgrid'
get_ext(x, ...)

# S3 method for class 'character'
get_ext(x, ...)

Arguments

x

A spatial object, file path or source

...

Not used

Value

A numeric vector of length 4. Values are returned as: "xmin", "xmax", "ymin", "ymax"

See also

Other spatial helpers (class agnostic): get_dim(), get_proj(), get_source()

Examples

f <- system.file("ex/elev.tif", package = "terra")
get_ext(f)
#> [1]  5.741667  6.533333 49.441667 50.191667
get_ext(terra::rast(f))
#>      xmin      xmax      ymin      ymax 
#>  5.741667  6.533333 49.441667 50.191667 
f2 <- system.file("ex/lux.shp", package = "terra")
get_ext(f2)
#> [1]  5.744140  6.528252 49.447807 50.181622