Add an simple feature geometry to a gen_tibble

gt_add_sf adds an active sf geometry column to a gen_tibble object. The resulting gen_tbl inherits from sf and can be used with functions from the sf package. It is possible to either create a sf::sfc geometry column from coordinates, or to provide an existing geometry column (which will then become the active geometry for sf).

Usage

gt_add_sf(x, coords = NULL, crs = NULL, sfc_column = NULL)

Arguments

x

a gen_tibble object

coords

a vector of length 2, giving the names of the x and y columns in x (i.e. the coordinates, e.g. longitude and latitude). If coords is not provided, the geometry column must be provided.

crs

the coordinate reference system of the coordinates. If this is not set, it will be set to the default value of sf::st_crs(4326).

sfc_column

the name of an sf::sfc column to be used as the geometry

Value

a gen_tibble object with an additional geometry column (and thus belonging also to sf class).

Examples

example_gt <- load_example_gt("gen_tbl")

# Add some coordinates
example_gt <- example_gt %>% mutate(
  longitude = c(0, 0, 2, 2, 0, 2, 2),
  latitude = c(51, 51, 49, 49, 51, 41, 41)
)

# Convert lat and long to sf:
example_gt <- gt_add_sf(x = example_gt, coords = c("longitude", "latitude"))

# Check class
class(example_gt)
#> [1] "gen_tbl"    "sf"         "tbl_df"     "tbl"        "data.frame"