GRASS GIS manual: r.category

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NAME

r.category - Manages category values and labels associated with user-specified raster map layers.

KEYWORDS

raster, category

SYNOPSIS

r.category

r.category --help

r.category map=name [cats=range[,range,...]] [values=float[,float,...]] [separator=character] [raster=name] [rules=name] [format=string] [coefficients=mult1,offset1,mult2,offset2] [--help] [--verbose] [--quiet] [--ui]

Flags:

--help: Print usage summary
--verbose: Verbose module output
--quiet: Quiet module output
--ui: Force launching GUI dialog

Parameters:

map=name [required]: Name of raster map
cats=range[,range,...]: Category values; Example: 1,3,7-9,13
values=float[,float,...]: Comma separated value list; Example: 1.4,3.8,13
separator=character: Field separator; Special characters: pipe, comma, space, tab, newline; Default: tab
raster=name: Raster map from which to copy category table
rules=name: File containing category label rules (or "-" to read from stdin)
format=string: Default label or format string for dynamic labeling; Used when no explicit label exists for the category
coefficients=mult1,offset1,mult2,offset2: Dynamic label coefficients; Two pairs of category multiplier and offsets, for $1 and $2

DESCRIPTION
NOTES
- Input from a file
- Default and dynamic category labels
EXAMPLES
- Printing categories
- Adding categories
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS

DESCRIPTION

r.category prints the category values and labels for the raster map layer specified by map=name to standard output. You can also use it to set category labels for a raster map.

The user can specify all needed parameters on the command line, and run the program non-interactively. If the user does not specify any categories (e.g., using the optional cats=range[,range,...] argument), then all the category values and labels for the named raster map layer that occur in the map are printed. The entire map is read using r.describe, to determine which categories occur in the map. If a listing of categories is specified, then the labels for those categories only are printed. The cats may be specified as single category values, or as ranges of values. The user may also (optionally) specify that a field separator other than a space or tab be used to separate the category value from its corresponding category label in the output, by using the separator=character|space|tab option (see example below). If no field separator is specified by the user, a tab is used to separate these fields in the output, by default.

The output is sent to standard output in the form of one category per line, with the category value first on the line, then an ASCII TAB character (or whatever single character or space is specified using the separator parameter), then the label for the category.

NOTES

Any ASCII TAB characters which may be in the label are replaced by spaces.

The output from r.category can be redirected into a file, or piped into another program.

Input from a file

The rules option allows the user to assign category labels from values found in a file. The label can refer to a single category, range of categories, floating point value, or a range of floating point values. The format is given as follows (when separator is set to colon; no white space must be used after the separator):

cat:Label
val1:val2:Label

If the filename is given as "-", the category labels are read from stdin

Default and dynamic category labels

Default and dynamic category labels can be created for categories that are not explicitly labeled. The coefficient line can be followed by explicit category labels which override the format label generation.

   0:no data
   2:	.
   5:	.		      ## explicit category labels
   7:	.

explicit labels can be also of the form:

   5.5:5:9 label description
   or
   15:30  label description

In the format line

$1 refers to the value num*5.0+1000 (ie, using the first 2 coefficients)
$2 refers to the value num*5.0+1005 (ie, using the last 2 coefficients)

$1.2 will print $1 with 2 decimal places.

Also, the form $?xxx$yyy$ translates into yyy if the category is 1, xxx otherwise. The $yyy$ is optional. Thus

$1 meter$?s

will become:
1 meter (for category 1)
2 meters (for category 2), etc.

format='Elevation: $1.2 to $2.2 feet' ## Format Statement
coefficients="5.0,1000,5.0,1005" ## Coefficients

The format and coefficients above would be used to generate the following statement in creation of the format appropriate category string for category "num":

sprintf(buff,"Elevation: %.2f to %.2f feet", num*5.0+1000, num*5.0*1005)

Note: while both the format and coefficient lines must be present a blank line for the format string will effectively suppress automatic label generation.

To use a "$" in the label without triggering the plural test, put "$$" in the format string.

Use 'single quotes' when using a "$" on the command line to avoid unwanted shell substitution.

EXAMPLES

Spearfish sample dataset:

Printing categories

r.category map=soils

prints the values and labels associated with all of the categories in the soils raster map layer.

r.category map=soils cats=10,12,15-20

prints only the category values and labels for soils map layer categories 10, 12, and 15 through 20.

r.category map=soils cats=10,20 separator=':'

prints the values and labels for soils map layer categories 10 and 20, but uses ":" (instead of a tab) as the character separating the category values from the category values in the output: Example output:

10:Dumps, mine, Cc 
20:Kyle clay, KaA

Adding categories

Example for defining new category labels:

r.category diseasemap separator=: rules=- << EOF
1:potential absence
2:potential presence
EOF

This sets the categoy values 1 and 2 to respective text labels. Alternatively, the rules can be stored in an ASCII text file and loaded via the rules parameter.

AUTHORS

Michael Shapiro, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
Hamish Bowman, University of Otago, New Zealand (label creation options)

Last changed: $Date: 2016-11-30 07:49:35 -0800 (Wed, 30 Nov 2016) $

SOURCE CODE

Available at: r.category source code (history)