findGDAL function

Search recursivly existing 'GDAL binaries' installation(s) at a given drive/mountpoint

Provides an list of valid 'GDAL' installation(s) on your 'Windows' system. There is a major difference between osgeo4W and stand_alone installations. The functions trys to find all valid installations by analysing the calling batch scripts.

findGDAL(searchLocation = "default", quiet = TRUE)

Arguments

• searchLocation: drive letter to be searched, for Windows systems default is C:/, for Linux systems default is /usr/bin.
• quiet: boolean switch for supressing console messages default is TRUE

Returns

A dataframe with the 'GDAL' root folder(s), and command line executable(s)

Examples

run = FALSE
if (run) {
# find recursively all existing 'GDAL' installations folders starting 
# at the default search location
findGDAL()
}

Author(s)

Chris Reudenbach