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I have a RasterBrick and I am trying to add new layers to it, (with addLayer) but every time I try I receive the following message:

Error in sapply(x, fromDisk) & sapply(x, inMemory) : operations are possible only for numeric, logical or complex types

The brick and the layers have the same crs, res, and extent, and I reprojected the brick to match the layers.

Is there anything else that might be keeping the two from merging?

The only thing I can think of is that the brick is stored on disk and the layer is stored on memory- but would that actually effect anything?

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    Hard to tell without your data or your code. If you use readAll on the stack to bring it into memory (use inMemory to check) does it work?
    – Spacedman
    Commented Apr 12, 2019 at 14:45
  • My code is just "x <- addLayer(y)". My data is the worldclim data and the elevation data (for the US) from getData (among others). I changed the extent, res and crs of worldclim to match the elevation data. I read the brick into memory and that's not the problem
    – birdoptera
    Commented Apr 12, 2019 at 18:26
  • You're not adding anything to y. Are you trying to do x = addLayer(x, y)? See how important it is to show your code?
    – Spacedman
    Commented Apr 12, 2019 at 18:42
  • And now I'm embarrassed about how dumb I am. That was exactly the problem. Thanks.
    – birdoptera
    Commented Apr 12, 2019 at 18:48
  • Nah, its a badly named function! addLayers might be better, or it might not even be needed - you can do stack(a,b,c) and get the same effect I think...
    – Spacedman
    Commented Apr 12, 2019 at 19:41

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The addLayer function works by stacking all its arguments - to add a layer to an existing raster or stack make it the first argument. This is shown in the help:

 file <- system.file("external/test.grd", package="raster")
 s <- stack(file, file, file)
 r <- raster(file)
 s <- addLayer(s, r/2, r*2)

Running with only one argument produces that error:

> s = addLayer(s)
Error in sapply(x, fromDisk) & sapply(x, inMemory) : 
  operations are possible only for numeric, logical or complex types

Its not a particularly infomative error message.

addLayer appears to be equivalent to stack:

> s3 = stack(s,s,s)
> as3 = addLayer(s,s,s)

except in the case of adding nothing! stack(s) === s in this case!

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