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

In gdalraster: Bindings to the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' Raster API

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, long name, raster (logical), vector (logical), read/write flag (ro is read-only, w supports CreateCopy, ⁠w+⁠ supports Create), virtual I/O supported (logical), and subdatasets (logical).

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

nrow(gdal_formats())
head(gdal_formats())

gdal_formats("GPKG")

gdalraster documentation built on April 4, 2025, 4:38 a.m.