[R-sig-Geo] creating a geotiff

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Monica Pisica wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have some data as it is required for the function "image" {graphics}, 
> that means a vector x for x coord, a vector y for y coord and a matrix m 
> with x rows and y cols. I want to save this as a geotiff.  If i 
> transform my data to take the form of a 3 column data.frame i can use 
> gridded and writeGDAL to obtain my geotiff, but sincerely it seems a 
> little silly to do that. Is there any other way in doing it??? I've 
> tried to transform this data in one of the sp objects but .... i was not 
> able to. Any ideas??

Use image2Grid() in sp, contributed by Mike Sumner for exactly this 
situation.

Roger

>
> Thanks for all the help,
>
> Monica
>
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