plot extent and/or convert extent to SpatialPolygons

I just realised my reply only went to Agustin - here it is again...

You can convert extent e to SpatialPolygons with

as(e, 'SpatialPolygons')

... but yes, you can also plot the extent object with plot.

e.g.

r <- raster(matrix(runif(100), nc=10))
plot(r)
e <- extent(0.5, 0.75, 0.5, 0.75)
plot(e, add=TRUE)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Manuel Schneider <
manuel.schneider at agroscope.admin.ch> wrote:

Agustin Lobo <alobolistas <at> gmail.com> writes:

Is it possible to plot an extent object (i.e. on top of a raster like
it would be done for a polygon with add=TRUE)
Or can I just convert the extent object to SpatialPolygons?

Thanks
Agus

Try

bbox2square <- function(bb)
{
        coord.mat <- data.frame(x=rep(bb[1,],each=2),y=c(bb[2,],bb[2,2:1]))
        coord.mat <- rbind(coord.mat, coord.mat[1,])
        sq <- SpatialPolygons(list(Polygons(list(Polygon(coord.mat)), ID =
1)))
        return(as(sq, "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"))
}

where bb <- bbox(obj)

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