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Get list of supported spatial drivers and file formats

Source: R/sx_metadata.R
sx_drivers.Rd

Returns a data frame of spatial drivers supported by the current backend. For the DuckDB reader, this includes all GDAL-supported formats.

Usage

sx_drivers(verbosity = NULL)

Arguments

verbosity

Character or NULL. Controls message output for this function call.

  • "quiet": Suppress all informational messages.

  • "info": Show standard progress and status messages.

  • "debug": Show additional diagnostic messages for troubleshooting.

If NULL (the default), uses the global sx.verbosity option. See sx_options() for persistent configuration.

Value

A data frame with columns:

  • short_name: Driver short name (e.g., "GPKG")

  • long_name: Descriptive name (e.g., "GeoPackage")

  • can_read: Logical. Whether the driver supports reading.

  • can_write: Logical. Whether the driver supports writing.

  • can_create: Logical. Whether the driver supports creating new files.

Examples

# \donttest{
# List all supported drivers
drivers <- sx_drivers()
head(drivers)
#>       short_name                   long_name can_create can_copy can_open
#> 1 ESRI Shapefile              ESRI Shapefile       TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
#> 2   MapInfo File                MapInfo File       TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
#> 3        UK .NTF                     UK .NTF      FALSE    FALSE     TRUE
#> 4          LVBAG Kadaster LV BAG Extract 2.0      FALSE    FALSE     TRUE
#> 5            S57              IHO S-57 (ENC)       TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
#> 6            DGN            Microstation DGN       TRUE    FALSE     TRUE
#>                                         help_url can_read can_write
#> 1 https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/shapefile.html     TRUE      TRUE
#> 2     https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/mitab.html     TRUE      TRUE
#> 3       https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/ntf.html     TRUE     FALSE
#> 4     https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/lvbag.html     TRUE     FALSE
#> 5       https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/s57.html     TRUE      TRUE
#> 6       https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/dgn.html     TRUE      TRUE

# Check for specific driver
"GPKG" %in% drivers$short_name
#> [1] TRUE
# }