Marxan outputs [feature proposal]

[jeffreyhanson]

It looks like it would be useful to have the functionality to Marxan compatible outputs from solutions.

How much interest is there in this? If there is a lot of interest, how should it be implemented? One approach might be to have a function marxan_output(problem, solution, output_dir) where problem is a ConservationPlanningProblem, solution is the output RasterLayer, Spatial* object, or data.frame object, and output_dir is a character object reffering to a folder to save the results in. Thoughts?

[ricschuster]

I think this is a great idea and similar to the input folder idea, it would probably help people familiar with Marxan to transition to prioritizr.

[jeffreyhanson]

Do you think it would be worth having this functionality in the first release on CRAN?

[ricschuster]

I personally think having marxan type outputs for the marxan_problem function would probably be enough for now, but if this is not too much effort it would probably be good to include, just to make the transition for Marxan users easier.

[jeffreyhanson]

Ok. Yeah it would probably take me a while to get this function working properly. So maybe we should leave it for the second CRAN release?

[ricschuster]

Waiting for the second CRAN release with this sounds good to me.