gdalraster 2.2.0

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gdalraster 2.2.0

Features

• initial bindings to the "gdal" command line interface (CLI) added in GDAL 3.11
  • functions for using "gdal" CLI algorithms: gdal_commands(), gdal_usage(), gdal_run(), gdal_alg()
  • bindings to the GDALAlgorithm API implemented in class GDALAlg
  • requires gdalraster built against GDAL >= 3.11.3

Other updates and fixes

• pixel_extract(): add checks for potential ctrl-c user interrupt during extract for a large number of points
• allow reporting a raster driver name as empty string for a dataset that has no driver (report no driver when driver null (fixes 759) #761, thanks to @mdsumner)
• changes to address crash in ogr_reproject() following GDAL ERROR 1: Reprojection failed on certain CRAN platforms with alternative BLAS/LAPACK implementations
  • disable for now the Arrow code path for GDAL vector translate in the examples and tests for ogr_reproject() (cf. https://gdal.org/en/stable/programs/ogr2ogr.html#known-issues)
  • retain basic tests of ogr_reproject() across all GDAL versions but skip more complex tests if GDAL < 3.11.3 ("stable" version as of July 2025)
  • move Vector API Overview from vignette to a web article

Documentation

• add conda-forge installation instructions in the README and web docs (doc: Place binary package install methods before source #762, thanks to @matthewfeickert)
• update the sample data elevation raster (inst/extdata/storml_elev.tif) to avoid visual artifacts (Update the sample data elevation raster (inst/extdata/storml_elev.tif) to avoid visual artefacts #768)
• add web article Using "gdal" CLI algorithms from R

Internal

• avoid clang warning from -Wimplicit-const-int-float-conversion in src/vsifile.cpp
• method setGDALDatasetH_() in classes GDALRaster and GDALVector: check shared flag of the incoming GDALDatasetH and set the m_shared member variable
• class GDALRaster: call GDALReleaseDataset() instead of GDALClose() in the close() method and destructor when the dataset is non-shared
• skip tests that require PostGIS drivers if they are not available
• code linting

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This discussion was created from the release gdalraster 2.2.0.