Utilities to Handle WKT Spatial Data

Utilities to generate bounding boxes from 'WKT' (Well-Known Text) objects and R data types, validate 'WKT' objects and convert object types from the 'sp' package into 'WKT' representations.

WKT utilities in R

wicket is a little package to make handling Well-Known Text (WKT) data easier in R, letting you easily:

1. Validate WKT data;
2. Generate WKT bounding boxes from R data types, and;
3. Convert sp objects (particularly SpatialPolygons and SpatialPolygonDataFrames) into WKT.

The package is mostly built out of C++, and as such can perform all of these operations extremely fast, to the tune of 100,000 sp-to-WKT conversions in just over a second. For more information, see the introductory vignette.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Installation

The package can be installed via:

install.packages("wicket")

For the release version, and:

devtools::install_github("ropensci/wicket")

For the development version.