[R-sig-Geo] How to work with big images (>1GB)

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 04/06/12 11:44, Matthias Bösling wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> does anyone knows how to work with big spacial image with a size of more than 1 GB? I tried to
> tile the image in multiple smaller tiles but the multiple call of the function 'writeRaster' of
> the package 'raster' leads to crashes of the RGui. How do you solve the problem with big images
> or are ther no possiblities to work in r with big images yet?

You should look at gdal, which should be able to do the tiling for you.

Cheers,

Rainer

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> 
> Thanks and best regards, Matthias Bösling
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