[R-sig-Geo] Pre-GDAL 2: rgdal changes

[MacQueen, Don]

Roger (and others),

I'm able to use my laptop, a Mac OS X running 10.9.5, as a testbed, so as
not to disrupt my current work on my desktop machine.

Thus far, my attempt to install GDAL 2 from source failed. I'm not sure
where best to ask for help on that, and I'm more of a user than a
developer. I don't consider myself to be very good at this kind of thing.
So suggestions for where best to ask questions on that aspect would be
welcome. When I do ask, I will of course include details.

I have been using William Kyngesburye's framework builds for years now, so
this testing will mean I'll have a mixture, such as proj.4 from a
framework and GDAL 2 installed from sources. I'm not sure how much this
will affect installation -- but I'm optimistic it will be not much.

Thanks
-Don

-- 
Don MacQueen

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
7000 East Ave., L-627
Livermore, CA 94550
925-423-1062





On 5/31/15, 10:59 AM, "Roger Bivand" <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:

>The second beta of GDAL 2 is now available, and as of revision 535 on
>R-Forge, the legacy rgdal package passes R CMD check with either GDAL
>1.11.2 (or earlier) or GDAL 2.0.0 beta 2.
>
>One or two issues are known (Integer64 in vector fields and FIDs not
>supported in R; gdalDrivers() reports both raster and vector drivers; the
>MapInfo File TAB driver doesn't work for writing, ...), but others remain
>to be discovered.
>
>For those who need rgdal in production, and can install the 2.0.0 beta,
>it 
>would be a really good use of time to identify issues now, rather than
>when GDAL 2 starts to become the standard, stable release. Anyone else
>needing an itch to scratch is also, of course, welcome to contribute.
>
>The rgdal package will continue to condition on GDAL 1 or 2, so hopefully
>those users who do not need to move to GDAL 2 will not be affected.
>However, it is worth noting that GDAL is maintained by very, very, few
>volunteers (even plural is questionable here), and when they feel that
>backporting fixed from GDAL 2 to GDAL 1 is taking time from more
>important 
>things, you will be stranded with EOL software.
>
>So please consider taking the time to contribute to the idenfication of
>issues in the development version of rgdal built against GDAL 2 and/or 1,
>available for anonymous SVN checkout at:
>
>svn checkout svn://scm.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/rgdal/trunk
>
>Enjoy!
>
>Roger
>
>-- 
>Roger Bivand
>Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
>Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
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>e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
>
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