Process population density data — process_sedac

The process_secac_population() function imports and cleans raw population density data, returning a single SpatRaster object.

Usage

process_sedac_population(path = NULL, extent = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path: character(1). Path to GeoTIFF (.tif) or netCDF (.nc) file.
extent: numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...: Placeholders.

Value

a SpatRaster object

Author

Mitchell Manware

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
pop <- process_sedac_population(
  path = "./data/sedac_population_example.tif"
)
} # }