Faster operations on rasters (DEPRECATED because terra::mask is fast)

Deprecated. Use maskTo().

fastMask(
  x,
  y,
  cores = NULL,
  useGDAL = FALSE,
  verbose = getOption("reproducible.verbose", 1),
  ...,
  messageSkipDeprecated = FALSE
)

Arguments

x: A Raster* object.
y: A SpatialPolygons object. If it is not in the same projection as x, it will be reprojected on the fly to that of x
cores: An integer* or 'AUTO'. This will be used if gdalwarp is triggered. 'AUTO' will calculate 90% of the total number of cores in the system, while an integer or rounded float will be passed as the exact number of cores to be used.
useGDAL: Deprecated. Logical or "force". This is defunct; internals now can use terra if options("reproducible.useTerra" = TRUE), which is not (yet) the default.
verbose: Numeric, -1 silent (where possible), 0 being very quiet, 1 showing more messaging, 2 being more messaging, etc. Default is 1. Above 3 will output much more information about the internals of Caching, which may help diagnose Caching challenges. Can set globally with an option, e.g., options('reproducible.verbose' = 0) to reduce to minimal
...: Currently unused.
messageSkipDeprecated: Logical. If TRUE, then the message about this function being deprecated will be suppressed.

A Raster* object, masked (i.e., smaller extent and/or several pixels converted to NA)

Eliot McIntire