solution output

[prioritizr]

solution output

[jeffreyhanson]

Yeah, I agree it's important but I'm not sure how to include it in returned objects. I suppose one approach would be to add this information to the object's attributes? One can add a variety of info to objects this way.

For example:

# create vector
x <- 1:5
# add attribute
attr(x, "note") <- "information"
# print object
print(x)
# access data in attribute
attr(x, "note")

[ricschuster]

Attributes is certainly one way. Would a named list work too?
Maybe as a standard the first item being the solution raster and the rest with structured order. If the solution raster is NA (cases where no spatial data was supplied) list[[2]] could be the output df? Not sure if that makes sense, I'm just not a big fan of attributes.

[jeffreyhanson]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of attributes in general either. I really like that prioritizr outputs the Spatial/Raster/data.frame objects as solutions, and the outputs can be immediately used for subsequent analysis. Is there any way we could implement this without resorting to attributes?

[ricschuster]

Not sure. Maybe attributes do make the most sense in this case. Maybe use attributes for now and if we come across a better solution we can adjust?

[jeffreyhanson]

Ok sounds like a plan.