Get GDAL version

gdal_version() returns a caharacter vector of GDAL runtime version information. gdal_version_num() returns only the full version number (gdal_version()[2]) as an integer value.

Usage

gdal_version()

gdal_version_num()

Value

gdal_version() returns a character vector of length four containing:

• "–version" - one line version message, e.g., “GDAL 3.6.3, released 2023/03/12”

• "GDAL_VERSION_NUM" - formatted as a string, e.g., “3060300” for GDAL 3.6.3.0

• "GDAL_RELEASE_DATE" - formatted as a string, e.g., “20230312”

• "GDAL_RELEASE_NAME" - e.g., “3.6.3”

gdal_version_num() returns as.integer(gdal_version()[2])

Examples

gdal_version()
#> [1] "GDAL 3.8.4, released 2024/02/08" "3080400"                        
#> [3] "20240208"                        "3.8.4"                          

gdal_version_num()
#> [1] 3080400