R: GDAL version and supported file formats

gdal {terra}

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GDAL version and supported file formats

Description

Set the GDAL warning level or get a data.frame with the available GDAL drivers (file formats), or get the GDAL version (if warn=NA and drivers=FALSE, the default.

GDAL is the software library that terra builds on to read and write spatial data and for some raster data processing.

Usage

gdal(warn=NA, drivers=FALSE)

Arguments

`warn`	ignored if `NA`. 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.

Value

character

Examples

gdal()
gdal(2)
head(gdal(drivers=TRUE))