[R-sig-Geo] HDF4 in Windows

[Alex Mandel]

Doesn't the rgdal binary on Windows come with gdal?
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_hdf4.html
Though it looks like that driver may be optional at compile time.

Not having seen the whole discussion of this, I assume you get some sort 
of error message trying to load with rgdal?

Thanks,
Alex

On 02/24/2012 08:47 AM, Jan Verbesselt wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I am using linux/mac (gdal) but did you try:
> http://fwtools.maptools.org/  for windows?
>
> Maybe you can call FWtools (gdal functions) via the:
>> system() in R?
>
> Alternatively you can use the MODIS MRT tool (windows/linux/mac) to convert to an R raster readable format.
> https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/tools/modis_reprojection_tool
>
> then use gdaltranslate() e.g. to *tif and the raster package to read the geotif.
>
> Let us know if this helps because this will be useful for many students here,
> J
>
> Dr. ir. Jan Verbesselt
> Centre for Geo-information
> Wageningen University, The Netherlands
> T: + 31 317 48 52 68
> http://bfast.r-forge.r-project.org/
> http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jan-verbesselt/
>
>
> On 24/02/2012, at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote:
>
>> R-sig-geo'ers:
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone has made any progress getting hdf4 files
>> working (querying + extracting data) in any R package on *Windows*.  I
>> have some MODIS and MASTER files which use HDF that I need to open up
>> and would prefer to not use either an external program or the Linux
>> version of R.  Thoughts?
>>
>> --j
>>
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