R Observatory: Metrics for gdalUtilities version 1.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gdalUtilities

1.2.5

Wrappers for 'GDAL' Utilities Executables

3packages depend

16.5Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joshua O'BrienFirst published 2019-07-1810 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.18

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 591 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 18%
Documented parameters: 19%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

16.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,698 · ~45/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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64230 days

2.5K90 days

16.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ joshobrien/gdalutilities

40Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

86Commits

2Contributors

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

Stars over time

2025-04-29 · 382026-07-07 · 40

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

OtsuFire clc sigugr

Code & Tests

People & History

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Joshua O'Brien

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.2.5

Package Timeline

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-18
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Analysis of Spatial Data

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gdalUtilities version 1.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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