Provides bindings to Frank Warmerdam's Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) (>= 1.3.1) and access to projection/transformation operations from the PROJ.4 library. The GDAL and PROJ.4 libraries are external to the package, and, when installing the package from source, must be correctly installed first. Both GDAL raster and OGR vector map data can be imported into R, and GDAL raster data and OGR vector data exported. Use is made of classes defined in the sp package. Windows binaries (including GDAL, PROJ.4 and Expat) are provided on CRAN. Mac Intel OS X binaries (including GDAL, PROJ.4 and Expat) are not provided on CRAN, but can be installed from the CRAN Extras repository with: setRepositories(ind=1:2); install.packages('rgdal').
Timothy H. Keitt <tkeitt@mail.utexas.edu>, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand@nhh.no>, Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de>, Barry Rowlingson

Provides bindings to Frank Warmerdam's Geospatial Data
Abstraction Library (GDAL) (>= 1.3.1) and access to
projection/transformation operations from the PROJ.4 library.
The GDAL and PROJ.4 libraries are external to the package, and,
when installing the package from source, must be correctly
installed first. Both GDAL raster and OGR vector map data can
be imported into R, and GDAL raster data and OGR vector data
exported. Use is made of classes defined in the sp package.
Windows binaries (including GDAL, PROJ.4 and Expat) are
provided on CRAN. Mac Intel OS X binaries (including GDAL,
PROJ.4 and Expat) are not provided on CRAN, but can be
installed from the CRAN Extras repository with:
setRepositories(ind=1:2); install.packages('rgdal').

Provides bindings to Frank Warmerdam's Geospatial Data
Abstraction Library (GDAL) (>= 1.7.1) and access to
projection/transformation operations from the PROJ.4 library.
The GDAL and PROJ.4 libraries are external to the package, and,
when installing the package from source, must be correctly
installed first. Both GDAL raster and OGR vector map data can
be imported into R, and GDAL raster data and OGR vector data
exported. Use is made of classes defined in the sp package.
Windows and Mac Intel OS X binaries (including GDAL, PROJ.4 and
Expat) are provided on CRAN.
for building from source: GDAL >= 1.7.1 library
from http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource and PROJ.4
(proj >= 4.4.9) from http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/; GDAL OSX
frameworks built by William Kyngesburye at
http://www.kyngchaos.com/ may be used for source installs on
OSX.