terra (version 1.4-22)

gdal: GDAL version, supported file formats, and cache size

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)
gdalCache(size=NA)

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.

size

numeric. The new cache size in MB

Value

character

See Also

describe for file-level metadata "GDALinfo"

Examples

# NOT RUN {
gdal()
gdal(2)
head(gdal(drivers=TRUE))
# }