test equality between the geometry type and a class or set of classes

test equality between the geometry type and a class or set of classes

st_is(x, type)

Arguments

x	object of class sf, sfc or sfg
type	character; class, or set of classes, to test against

Examples

st_is(st_point(0:1), "POINT")
#> [1] TRUE
sfc = st_sfc(st_point(0:1), st_linestring(matrix(1:6,,2)))
st_is(sfc, "POINT")
#> [1]  TRUE FALSE
st_is(sfc, "POLYGON")
#> [1] FALSE FALSE
st_is(sfc, "LINESTRING")
#> [1] FALSE  TRUE
st_is(st_sf(a = 1:2, sfc), "LINESTRING")
#> [1] FALSE  TRUE
st_is(sfc, c("POINT", "LINESTRING"))
#> [1] TRUE TRUE