[R-sig-Geo] from ArcGIS GRID to .ASC

[Alexander Brenning]

Hi,

an alternative to using GDAL for writing ASCII grids is the 
write.ascii.grid function in the RSAGA package. (RSAGA is an interface 
to SAGA GIS, but this function actually doesn't require SAGA to be 
installed on your computer.)

write.ascii.grid(data, file, header = NULL, write.header = TRUE,
     digits, dec = ".", georef = "corner")

The 'data' argument is a matrix, and the 'header' is a list with named 
components as in the ASCII grid header, see RSAGA help. Defining your 
own header is pretty simple.

I hope this helps
  Alex




milton ruser wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am reading a set of maps from ArcGRID format using rgdal and I need to
> export to ASC format.
> 
> But when I try the commands below, I get an error.
> 
> require(rgdal)
> 
> mes01jan<-readGDAL("jan_00")
> image(mes01jan, col=topo.colors(50))  #looks find
> writeGDAL(mes01jan, "mes01jan.asc", drivername = "AAIGrid", type="Byte")
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> miltinho, brazil
> 
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