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Lime
Lime

Reputation: 756

Extract multiple values from raster using for loop

I'm trying to extract multiple cell values from a raster using the following for-loop:

testis <- NULL
for(i in paste0("y", 2011:2019)){
  testis[i] <- raster::extract(rf[[c(1, 3)]], i[, 1:2])
}

In replacement for:

e_change <- raster::extract(rf[[c(1, 3)]], y2019[, 1:2]) #extract cell values

Although, I get the following error:

Error in h(simpleError(msg, call)) : error in evaluating the argument 'y' in selecting a method for function 'extract': incorrect number of dimensions

Upvotes: 0

Views: 925

Answers (1)

Elia
Elia

Reputation: 2584

In general use example data (see ?stack).

the error occurs because you iterate over a character vector (paste0("y",2011:2019) that is one-dimensional and you try to subset it like data.frame i[,1:2] which is two-dimensional. However, the second element of raster::extract() should be:

points represented by a two-column matrix or data.frame, or SpatialPoints*; SpatialPolygons*; SpatialLines; sf spatial vector objects; Extent; or a numeric vector representing cell numbers

so you can't extract anything from a character vector. you can extract value with cells number or points location, which would seem what you want to do

r <- raster(ncol=36, nrow=18, vals=1:(18*36))
s <- stack(r,r*2,r/3)
#extract with cell number
raster::extract(s[[c(1, 3)]],c(1:100),df=T)
#extract with points
xy <- cbind(-50, seq(-80, 80, by=20))
raster::extract(s[[c(1, 3)]],xy,df=T)
sp <- SpatialPoints(xy)
raster::extract(s[[c(1, 3)]],sp,df=T)

Just a note for the speed issue. If values extraction is computationally intense due to the stack dimension or the number of points (or polygon), there is a wonderful function exact_extract() from exactextractr package that is waaaaay faster than raster::extract() and have more or less the same argument.

Upvotes: 0

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