R Observatory: Metrics for gdalraster version 2.7.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

gdalraster

2.7.0Package record

Bindings to 'GDAL'

5packages dependsuggested by 2

17Kdownloads / year

74.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chris ToneyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

API bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library ('GDAL', https://gdal.org). Implements the 'GDAL' Raster and Vector Data Models. Bindings are implemented with 'Rcpp' modules. Exposed C++ classes and stand-alone functions wrap much of the 'GDAL' API and provide additional functionality. Calling signatures resemble the native C, C++ and Python APIs provided by the 'GDAL' project. Class 'GDALRaster' encapsulates a 'GDALDataset' and its raster band objects. Class 'GDALVector' encapsulates an 'OGRLayer' and the 'GDALDataset' that contains it. Initial bindings are provided to the unified 'gdal' command line interface added in 'GDAL' 3.11. C++ stand-alone functions provide bindings to most 'GDAL' "traditional" raster and vector utilities, including 'OGR' facilities for vector geoprocessing, several algorithms, as well as the Geometry API ('GEOS' via 'GDAL' headers), the Spatial Reference Systems API, and methods for coordinate transformation. Bindings to the Virtual Systems Interface ('VSI') API implement standard file system operations abstracted for URLs, cloud storage services, 'Zip'/'GZip'/'7z'/'RAR', in-memory files, as well as regular local file systems. This provides a single interface for operating on file system objects that works the same for any storage backend. A custom raster calculator evaluates a user-defined R expression on a layer or stack of layers, with pixel x/y available as variables in the expression. Raster 'combine()' identifies and counts unique pixel combinations across multiple input layers, with optional raster output of the pixel-level combination IDs. Basic plotting capability is provided for raster and vector display. 'gdalraster' leans toward minimalism and the use of simple, lightweight objects for holding raw data. Currently, only minimal S3 class interfaces have been implemented for selected R objects that contain spatial data. 'gdalraster' may be useful in applications that need scalable, low-level I/O, or prefer a direct 'GDAL' API.

Changes in 2.7.0

add GDALVector$writeArrowBatch(): write a batch of rows from a data frame using GDAL Arrow C stream interface (#976)
add get_data_ptr(): get the pointer address of R data with format suitable as DATAPOINTER for a GDAL MEM dataset (#993)
add g_point_on_surface(): wrapper of OGR_G_PointOnSurface() in the GDAL API
get_pixel_line(): treat points "exactly" on the right or bottom raster edge as inside (#973)
RunningStats class: support optionally returning the count as bit64::integer64 (#975)
fix print.OGRFeatureSet(): avoid error if geometry column is missing
minor reformat the documentation of Rcpp exposed classes to satisfy CRAN requirements w.r.t. .Rd files without \usage
(internal) replace ARE_REAL_EQUAL() with equal_within_ulps_() (#974)
(internal) fix tests for some geometry functions due to changes in GEOS 3.15.0
(internal) fix test for GDALAlg::setArg() due to an argument data type change at GDAL 3.14

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("gdalraster", 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("firelab/gdalraster")

Development version from firelab/gdalraster. 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-gdalraster

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-gdalraster

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-gdalraster

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 24.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-27
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08

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OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.7.0

READMEYes · 851 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · evaluation depends on the environmentNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.7.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 135includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%118 run in a plain check (10 of them under a condition) · 3 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 91%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 1%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

17K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,260 · ~47/day · ~1.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.8K30 days

3.5K90 days

17K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on658 r2u7 autocran6.9K conda_forge64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

firelab/gdalraster ↗Organization: firelab

60Stars

10Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

23Releases

3,417Commits

9Commit identities

gdalrasterr-packagerstatsgeospatialvectorgis

3,417 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.7.0.9002, ahead of CRAN 2.7.0 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 26 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 98%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 482026-09-16 · 60

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

17 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/firelab/gdalraster on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductContributing guideSecurity policy

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-07

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

Lint, format, editor (4)

lintrEditorConfigVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (2)

.gitattributesblame-ignore revs

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing gdalraster adds 10 packages (10 with compiled code, 6.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, yyjsonr 1.3 MB, wk 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (13)

bit64 cligraphicsgrDevicesmethodsnanoarrow Rcpp (>= 1.0.7)statstoolsutilswk xml2 yyjsonr

LinkingTo (4)

cli nanoarrow Rcpp RcppInt64

Suggests (8)

glue gt knitr ltc rmarkdown scales testthat vctrs

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

FIESTA FIAstemmap FIESTAutils lazysf geotargets

Suggests, most downloaded first

ursa gpkg

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Chris Toney

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.1 (2023)

Michael D. Sumner

Author · added in 1.11.0

Marius Appel

Contributor, Copyright holder

configure.ac based on https://github.com/appelmar/gdalcubes

Peter Dimov

Contributor, Copyright holder

Boost combine hashes method in src/cmb_table.h

Daniel James

Contributor, Copyright holder

Boost combine hashes method in src/cmb_table.h

Even Rouault

Contributor, Copyright holder

GDAL API/documentation

Frank Warmerdam

Contributor, Copyright holder

GDAL API/documentation

Pepijn de Vries

Contributor · added in 2.5.0

Releases (23)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-05-24
Total releases: 23 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Copyright: See file inst/COPYRIGHTS for details.
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 3.2 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("gdalraster")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for gdalraster version 2.7.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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