findSAGA function

Search recursively existing 'SAGA GIS' installation(s) at a given drive/mount point

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

findSAGA(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 suppressing console messages default is TRUE

Returns

A dataframe with the 'SAGA GIS' root folder(s), version name(s) and installation type code(s)

Examples

## Not run:

# find recursively all existing 'SAGA GIS' installation folders starting 
# at the default search location
findSAGA()
## End(Not run)

Author(s)

Chris Reudenbach