Search recursivly existing 'GDAL binaries' installation(s) at a given drive/mountpoint

Source: R/gdalControls.R

Provides an list of valid 'GDAL' installation(s) on your 'Windows' system. There is a major difference between osgeo4W and stand_alone installations. The functions trys to find all valid installations by analysing the calling batch scripts.

findGDAL(searchLocation = "default", quiet = TRUE)

Arguments

searchLocation

drive letter to be searched, for Windows systems default is C:/, for Linux systems default is /usr/bin.

quiet

boolean switch for supressing console messages default is TRUE

Value

A dataframe with the 'GDAL' root folder(s), and command line executable(s)

Author

Chris Reudenbach

Examples


run = FALSE
if (run) {
# find recursively all existing 'GDAL' installations folders starting 
# at the default search location
findGDAL()
}