[gdal-dev] gdalUtils (GDAL/OGR for R) now on CRAN

[Jonathan Greenberg]

Will the "old way" be removed from future updates?  Or will the binary
utilities be retained?

--j

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:27 PM Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le vendredi 09 octobre 2015 19:43:28, Jonathan Greenberg a écrit :
> > Folks:
> >
> > I wanted to let you know I've pushed a major release of my gdalUtils
> > package to CRAN in the last week.  This wraps all non-python GDAL/OGR
> > utilities as of GDAL 2.0.1 for use in R, and provides some value-added
> > functions as well.
> >
> > install.packages("gdalUtils")
> > should work for all OSs, or if you want the bleeding edge version, use:
> > install.packages("gdalUtils", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
> >
> > Note this is not the same as rgdal -- my package simply wraps the gdal
> > binaries, which must be pre-installed by the user.
>
> Jonathan,
>
> You might take advantage of the librarification of those utilities that is
> currently taking place for GDAL 2.1 (work in progress) :
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc59.1_utilities_as_a_library
>
> Even
>
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --jonathan
>
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