gdal_formats: Retrieve information on GDAL format drivers for raster and...

In gdalraster: Bindings to 'GDAL'

Retrieve information on GDAL format drivers for raster and vector

Description

gdal_formats() returns a table of the supported raster and vector formats, with information about the capabilities of each format driver.

Usage

gdal_formats(format = "")

Arguments

format

A character string containing a driver short name. By default, information for all configured raster and vector format drivers will be returned.

Value

A data frame containing:

• the format short name

• file extension(s) if applicable (space-delimited string), or empty string ("")

• supports raster (logical)

• supports multidimensional raster (logical)

• supports vector (logical)

• supports geography network (logical)

• read/write flags (concatenated string, ro is read-only, w supports CreateCopy, ⁠w+⁠ supports Create, and u supports Update is reported if GDAL >= 3.11)

• supports virtual I/O e.g. /vsimem/ (logical)

• supports subdatasets (logical)

• supported SQL dialects reported if GDAL >= 3.6 (e.g., "NATIVE OGRSQL SQLITE")

• creation raster data types (e.g., "Byte Int16 UInt16 Float32" etc.)

• creation vector field types (e.g., "Integer Integer64 Real String Date DateTime Binary" etc.)

• creation field sub-types (e.g., "Boolean Int16 Float32 JSON" etc.)

• supports multiple vector layers reported if GDAL >= 3.4 (logical)

• supports reading field domains if GDAL >= 3.5 (logical)

• creation field domain types if GDAL >= 3.5 (supported values are Coded, Range and Glob)

Note

Virtual I/O refers to operations on GDAL Virtual File Systems. See https://gdal.org/en/stable/user/virtual_file_systems.html#virtual-file-systems.

Examples

gdal_formats() |> str()

gdal_formats("GPKG")

gdalraster documentation built on Dec. 18, 2025, 9:06 a.m.