Saving GeoTIFF from R

Those files are generated in ArcGIS. Are auxiliary files for georeferencing and visualization, aren't part of GTiff as .shx or .dbf are in a shapefile.

  • .tfw is ESRI World file
  • .ovr are piramid layers
  • .xml is schema look and histogram
  • .cpg is for TIFF interpretation.
  • .dbf is for raster attribute table (thanks to @radouxju)

You can add .tfw using GDAL through raster package:

library(raster)

r <- raster()
values(r) <- sample(x = 1:10,size = ncell(r),replace = T)

writeRaster(r,'test.tif',options=c('TFW=YES'))

Check other options from GDAL GeoTIFF File Format to customize your export.