[R-sig-Geo] RASTER or RGDAL package

Robert Hijmans r.hijmans at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 18:13:45 CET 2011


> Dear mailing list.. Please give me some information. 
> Which one is best fit for Remote Sensing Data RASTER or RGDAL package??? 
> 
> with Best Regards, 
> 

I would add that raster builds on rgdal, and so, if you use raster, in most
cases it would be raster & rgdal, with rgdal providing the basic file
reading and writing, and raster managing that to avoid memory problems, and
through a large number of additional functions that operate on raster data.
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