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

[Edzer Pebesma]

Rainer, you could start trying to find out whether there is a MinGW-w64 
build of gdal around. If it's there, it should be fairly easy to port 
rgdal to this new target.

Rainer Hurling wrote:
> 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
>
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