[R-sig-Geo] spTransform() error : "load package rgdal for spTransform methods"

[Michael Sumner]

It's an ill-targeted error message. But, you aren't supposed to
reproject a SpatialGrid, both because sp/rgdal cannot do that without
low-level usage and since it's really an empty container (that can be
a SpatialGridDataFrame)

Use raster::projectRaster after conversion to raster objects (or
probably rethink whether you really need to reproject a grid in the
first place, often it's totally unnecessary and done rather than other
simpler tasks to achieve the same end).

Cheers, Mike.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Remi Genevest <rgenevest at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am facing a recurrent problem associated with spTransform() function from
> rgdal package.
> While I try to change the CRS of a SpatialGrid, I get the following error :
>
> Error in spTransform(grd, CRS("+init=epsg:3857")) :
>   load package rgdal for spTransform methods
>
> Does anybody know how to solve it?
>
> Here is my code :
>
>> library(rgdal)
>> # create the SpatialGrid
>> cc<-c(10,20)
>> cs<-c(0.1,0.1)
>> cd<-c(200,200)
>> grd<-GridTopology(cellcentre.offset=cc,cellsize=cs,cells.dim=cd)
>> grd<-SpatialGrid(grd)
>> # set the CRS :
>> proj4string(grd)<-CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84")
>> # transform the CRS :
>> grd<-spTransform(grd,CRS("+init=epsg:3857"))
> Error in spTransform(grd, CRS("+init=epsg:3857")) :
>   load package rgdal for spTransform methods
>>
>> ###################################################### R info session
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
> LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8
>  [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] rgdal_0.8-16    raster_2.2-31   hexbin_1.26.3   lattice_0.20-29
> sp_1.0-15
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     ggplot2_1.0.0    gtable_0.1.2
> MASS_7.3-33      munsell_0.4.2    plyr_1.8.1       proto_0.3-10
> Rcpp_0.11.2
> [10] reshape2_1.4     scales_0.2.4     stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.1.1
>
>
>
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Michael Sumner
Software and Database Engineer
Australian Antarctic Division
Hobart, Australia
e-mail: mdsumner at gmail.com