R: Write RasterStack and preserve layer names

Question

I have a raster stack, stk, consisting of three raster images in R. Here is a simple example

# set up a raster stack with three layers
> library(         


        

Answer 1

A bit late but might help someone else looking for a possible solution:

writeRaster(stk, filename=names(stk), bylayer=TRUE,format="GTiff")