[R-sig-Geo] how to crete a *.prj file from a Raster object

[Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini]

On 07/30/2013 03:53 PM, Emanuele Cordano wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have a RasterLayer object with CRS.
>
> I would like to write it in a *.asc ESRI ASCII file with writeRaster. I did
> it , I got the *.asc file but no related *.prj file was written.
> Is there a quick method to create directly the *.prj file from a
> RasterLayer object?

Hi Emanuele,

AFAIK, the .prj files are only used for vectorial shapefiles, and that 
is the reason why you don't get such file when using the 'writeRaster' 
function.

Have a look to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile#Shapefile_projection_format_.28.prj.29

All the best,

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini, Ph.D


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