vapour_gdal_version {vapour}

GDAL version and drivers.

Description

Return information about the GDAL library in use.

Usage

vapour_gdal_version()

vapour_proj_version()

vapour_all_drivers()

vapour_driver(dsource)

Arguments

dsource

data source string (i.e. file name or URL or database connection string)

Details

vapour_gdal_version returns the version of GDAL as a string. This corresponds to the "–version" as described for "GDALVersionInfo". GDAL documentation.

vapour_all_drivers returns the names and capabilities of all available drivers, in a list. This contains:

• driver the driver (short) name

• name the (long) description name

• vector logical vector indicating a vector driver

• raster logical vector indicating a raster driver

• create driver can create (note vapour provides no write capacity)

• copy driver can copy (note vapour provides no write capacity)

• virtual driver has virtual capabilities ('vsi')

vapour_driver() returns the short name of the driver, e.g. 'GPKG' or 'GTiff', to get the long name and other properties use vapour_all_drivers() and match on 'driver'.

Value

please see Details, character vectors or lists of character vectors

Examples

vapour_gdal_version()

drv <- vapour_all_drivers()

f <- system.file("extdata/sst_c.fgb", package = "vapour")
vapour_driver(f)

as.data.frame(drv)[match(vapour_driver(f), drv$driver), ]