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GDAL version, supported file formats, and cache size

gdal.Rd

Set the GDAL warning level or get a data.frame with the available GDAL drivers (file formats), or, if warn=NA and drivers=FALSE, you get the version numbers of one or all of the GDAL, PROJ and GEOS libraries.

GDAL is the software library that terra builds on to read and write spatial data and for some raster data processing. PROJ is used for transformation of coordinates ("projection") and GEOS is used for geometric operations with vector data.

Usage

gdal(warn=NA, drivers=FALSE, lib="gdal")
gdalCache(size=NA)
setGDALconfig(option, value="")
getGDALconfig(option)

Arguments

warn

If NA and drivers=FALSE, the version of the library specified by lib is returned. Otherwise, the value should be an integer between 1 and 4 representing the level of GDAL warnings and errors that are passed to R. 1 = warnings and errors; 2 = errors only (recoverable errors as a warning); 3 = irrecoverable errors only; 4 = ignore all errors and warnings. The default setting is 3

drivers

logical. If TRUE a data.frame with the raster and vector data formats that are available.

lib

character. "gdal", "proj", or "geos", or any other value to get the versions numbers of all three

size

numeric. The new cache size in MB

option

character. GDAL configuration option name, or a "name=value" string (in which case the value argument is ignored

value

character. value for GDAL configuration option. Use "" to reset it to its default value

See also

describe for file-level metadata "GDALinfo"

Value

character

Examples

gdal()
#> [1] "3.9.3"
gdal(2)
head(gdal(drivers=TRUE))
#>      name raster vector        can  vsi                     long.name
#> 1 AAIGrid   TRUE  FALSE read/write TRUE           Arc/Info ASCII Grid
#> 2    ACE2   TRUE  FALSE       read TRUE                          ACE2
#> 3    ADRG   TRUE  FALSE read/write TRUE ARC Digitized Raster Graphics
#> 4     AIG   TRUE  FALSE       read TRUE          Arc/Info Binary Grid
#> 5  AVCBin  FALSE   TRUE       read TRUE      Arc/Info Binary Coverage
#> 6  AVCE00  FALSE   TRUE       read TRUE Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage