inspectDataset: Obtain information about a GDAL raster or vector dataset

In gdalraster: Bindings to 'GDAL'

Obtain information about a GDAL raster or vector dataset

Description

inspectDataset() returns information about the format and content of a dataset. The function first calls identifyDriver(), and then opens the dataset as raster and/or vector to obtain information about its content. The return value is a list with named elements.

Usage

inspectDataset(filename, ...)

Arguments

filename	Character string containing the name of the file to access. This may not refer to a physical file, but instead contain information for the driver on how to access a dataset (e.g., connection string, URL, etc.)
...	Additional arguments passed to identifyDriver().

Value

A list with the following named elements:

• format: character string, the format short name

• supports_raster: logical, TRUE if the format supports raster data

• contains_raster: logical, TRUE if this is a raster dataset or the source contains raster subdatasets

• supports_subdatasets: logical, TRUE if the format supports raster subdatasets

• contains_subdatasets: logical, TRUE if the source contains subdatasets

• subdataset_names: character vector containing the subdataset names, or empty vector if subdatasets are not supported or not present

• supports_vector: logical, TRUE if the format supports vector data

• contains_vector: logical, TRUE if the source contains one or more vector layers

• layer_names: character vector containing the vector layer names, or empty vector if the format does not support vector or the source does not contain any vector layers

Note

Subdataset names are the character strings that can be used to instantiate GDALRaster objects. See https://gdal.org/en/stable/en/latest/user/raster_data_model.html#subdatasets-domain.

PostgreSQL / PostGISRaster are handled as a special case. If additional arguments raster or vector are not given for identifyDriver(), then raster = FALSE is assumed.

See Also

gdal_formats(), identifyDriver()

Examples

f <- system.file("extdata/ynp_features.zip", package = "gdalraster")
ynp_dsn <- file.path("/vsizip", f, "ynp_features.gpkg")

inspectDataset(ynp_dsn)

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