[R-sig-Geo] rgdal 64bit Windows version?

[Rainer Hurling]

Some days ago Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges announced an update to 
MinGW-w64 builds for 64-bit Windows on R-devel at . This daily version 
works really nice. But it is not fully applicable at this time because 
of some missing packages.

I am in particular interested in a 64-bit version of rgdal, which 
depends on a 64-bit version of gdal(.dll). Is their anything known about 
what is planned with this important part of spatial software?

Thanks for answering,
Rainer Hurling