Access to the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' ('GDAL') R package vapour version 0.16.0 CRAN Task View: Spatial (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Spatial) Provides low-level access to 'GDAL' functionality. 'GDAL' is the 'Geospatial Data Abstraction Library' a translator for raster and vector geospatial data formats that presents a single raster abstract data model and single vector abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats <https://gdal.org/>. This package is focussed on providing exactly and only what GDAL does, to enable developing further tools. Software Depends: R (>= 4.2.0) Imports: jsonlite, nanoarrow, stringr, utils, wk LinkingTo: cpp11 Suggests: testthat, knitr, markdown, rmarkdown, spelling Michael Sumner <mdsumner@gmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Michael Sumner [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-7511>), Simon Wotherspoon [ctb] (RasterIO configuration for resampling options), Mark Padgham [ctb] (helped get started :)), Edzer Pebesma [ctb] (wrote the field-read handling, adapted here from sf), Roger Bivand [ctb] (wrote configure.ac, adapted here from rgdal), Jim Hester [ctb, cph] (wrote CollectorList.h, copied here from fs package), Timothy Keitt [ctb] (wrote GetPointsInternal copied here from rgdal2 package), Jeroen Ooms [ctb] (tweaked build process, provided Windows build tools), Dale Maschette [ctb] (created the hex logo), Joseph Stachelek [ctb], Even Rouault [ctb] (primary author of the COG format and its use of the GDALwarp app-library, example code used by the warper function here), Robert Hijmans [ctb] (code in terra package used as example/inspiration), Dewey Dunnington [ctb] (wrote the columnar-access mode streaming Arrow support), Tomas Kalibera [ctb] GPL-3 2026-03-14 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=vapour doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.vapour en-US