Active category

Get or set the active category of a multi-categorical SpatRaster layer

# S4 method for SpatRaster
activeCat(x, layer=1)
# S4 method for SpatRaster
activeCat(x, layer=1)<-value

Arguments

x

SpatRaster

layer

positive integer, the layer number or name

value

positive integer or character, indicating which column in the categories to use. Note that when a number is used this index is zero based, and "1" refers to the second column. This is because the first column of the categories has the cell values, not categorical labels

Value

integer

See also

levels, cats

Examples

set.seed(0)
r <- rast(nrows=10, ncols=10)
values(r) <- sample(3, ncell(r), replace=TRUE) + 10
d <- data.frame(id=11:13, cover=c("forest", "water", "urban"), letters=letters[1:3], value=10:12)
levels(r) <- d

activeCat(r)
#> [1] 1
activeCat(r) <- 3
activeCat(r)
#> [1] 3