"GDALMajorObject" is a virtual base class for all GDAL objects.
getDescription(object)Objects can be created by calls of the form new("GDALMajorObject", ...), but are only created for classes that extend this class.
handle:Object of class "externalptr", used internally; not for public consumption
No methods defined with class "GDALMajorObject" in the signature.
an object inheriting from "GDALMajorObject"
Timothy H. Keitt, modified by Roger Bivand
getDescription:returns a descrption string associated with the object. No setter method is defined because GDAL dataset objects use the description to hold the filename attached to the dataset. It would not be good to change that mid-stream.
GDALDriver-class,
GDALReadOnlyDataset-class, GDALDataset-class and
GDALTransientDataset-class
driver <- new('GDALDriver', as.character(getGDALDriverNames()[1,1]))
driver
rm(driver)
logo <- system.file("pictures/logo.jpg", package="rgdal")[1]
x <- new("GDALReadOnlyDataset", logo)
x
getDescription(x)
dim(x)
GDAL.close(x)
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