R Observatory: Metrics for gdalUtilities version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gdalUtilities

1.2.5Package record

Wrappers for 'GDAL' Utilities Executables

3packages depend

12.8Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua O'BrienCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

R's 'sf' package ships with self-contained 'GDAL' executables, including a bare bones interface to several 'GDAL'-related utility programs collectively known as the 'GDAL utilities'. For each of those utilities, this package provides an R wrapper whose formal arguments closely mirror those of the 'GDAL' command line interface. The utilities operate on data stored in files and typically write their output to other files. Therefore, to process data stored in any of R's more common spatial formats (i.e. those supported by the 'sf' and 'terra' packages), first write them to disk, then process them with the package's wrapper functions before reading the outputted results back into R. GDAL function arguments introduced in GDAL version 3.5.2 or earlier are supported.

Changes in 1.2.5

Removed all uses of **raster** and **rasterVis** packages from examples in the function help pages, replacing them with function calls from the **terra** package.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("gdalUtilities", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("JoshOBrien/gdalUtilities")

Development version from JoshOBrien/gdalUtilities. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-gdalutilities

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-gdalUtilities

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-gdalUtilities

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) nearblack.Rd:30: Lost braces
    30 | code{infile=}, indicating that the input file should be
       |     ^

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Joshua O'Brien <joshmobrien@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Joshua",
                    family = "O'Brien",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "joshmobrien@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTENow
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.5

READMEYes · 591 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.5Citation fileNo

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 18%2 run in a plain check · 9 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 19%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,690 · ~35/day · ~1.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

2.7K90 days

12.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on380 r2u3 autocran1.6K conda_forge111 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

joshobrien/gdalutilities ↗Account: JoshOBrien

40Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

86Commits

2Commit identities

86 commits · Last activity 2023-08-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-16 · 392026-07-07 · 40

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/joshobrien/gdalutilities on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-08-22 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gdalUtilities adds 9 packages (8 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sf 9.3 MB, s2 2.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

sf

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

terra stars RColorBrewer testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

clc OtsuFire sigugr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Joshua O'Brien

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-18
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gdalUtilities version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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