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Get metadata for a GDAL format driver

Source: R/RcppExports.R
gdal_get_driver_md.Rd

gdal_get_driver_md() returns metadata for a driver.

Usage

gdal_get_driver_md(format, mdi_name = "")

Arguments

format

Character string giving a format driver short name (e.g., "GTiff").

mdi_name

Optional character string giving the name of a specific metadata item. Defaults to empty string ("") meaning fetch all metadata items.

Value

Either a named list of metadata items and their values as character strings, or a single character string if mdi_name is specified. Returns NULL if no metadata items are found for the given inputs.

See also

getCreationOptions()

Examples

dmd <- gdal_get_driver_md("GTiff")
str(dmd)
#> List of 17
#>  $ DCAP_COORDINATE_EPOCH : chr "YES"
#>  $ DCAP_CREATE           : chr "YES"
#>  $ DCAP_CREATECOPY       : chr "YES"
#>  $ DCAP_OPEN             : chr "YES"
#>  $ DCAP_RASTER           : chr "YES"
#>  $ DCAP_VIRTUALIO        : chr "YES"
#>  $ DMD_CREATIONDATATYPES : chr "Byte Int8 UInt16 Int16 UInt32 Int32 Float32 Float64 CInt16 CInt32 CFloat32 CFloat64"
#>  $ DMD_CREATIONOPTIONLIST: chr "<CreationOptionList>   <Option name='COMPRESS' type='string-select'>       <Value>NONE</Value>       <Value>LZW"| __truncated__
#>  $ DMD_EXTENSION         : chr "tif"
#>  $ DMD_EXTENSIONS        : chr "tif tiff"
#>  $ DMD_HELPTOPIC         : chr "drivers/raster/gtiff.html"
#>  $ DMD_LONGNAME          : chr "GeoTIFF"
#>  $ DMD_MIMETYPE          : chr "image/tiff"
#>  $ DMD_OPENOPTIONLIST    : chr "<OpenOptionList>   <Option name='NUM_THREADS' type='string' description='Number of worker threads for compressi"| __truncated__
#>  $ DMD_SUBDATASETS       : chr "YES"
#>  $ LIBGEOTIFF            : chr "1710"
#>  $ LIBTIFF               : chr "LIBTIFF, Version 4.5.1\nCopyright (c) 1988-1996 Sam Leffler\nCopyright (c) 1991-1996 Silicon Graphics, Inc."