[R-sig-Geo] Problem closing gdal file

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Agustin Lobo wrote:

> Hi!
>
> After writing a geotif file with
> writeGDAL(delme.cl.im,"t1cl100.tif",drivername = "GTiff")
>
> the file seems to remain open, cannot move it or rename it
> in the OS

I'm looking into this, but without the output of sessionInfo(), it isn't 
easy. May I assume that this is a Windows system? If so, have you built 
your own GDAL and rgdal, or are you using the binary Windows package?

Roger

>
> I've tried closing it with
> GDAL.close("t1cl100")
>
> but...
> Error in slot(dataset, "handle") :
>   cannot get a slot ("handle") from an object of type "character"
>
> Is there a better way to solve this problem than just exiting R?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Agus
>

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