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Get the geometry type (points, lines, or polygons) of a SpatVector. See datatype for the data types of the fields (attributes, variables) of a SpatVector.

Usage

# S4 method for SpatVector
geomtype(x)

# S4 method for SpatVector
is.points(x)

# S4 method for SpatVector
is.lines(x)

# S4 method for SpatVector
is.polygons(x)

Arguments

x

SpatVector

Value

character

Examples

f <- system.file("ex/lux.shp", package="terra")
v <- vect(f)

geomtype(v)
#> [1] "polygons"
is.polygons(v)
#> [1] TRUE
is.lines(v)
#> [1] FALSE
is.points(v)
#> [1] FALSE

names(v)
#> [1] "ID_1"   "NAME_1" "ID_2"   "NAME_2" "AREA"   "POP"   
datatype(v)
#> [1] "double" "string" "double" "string" "double" "long"