Downloads pre-compiled Windows ‘wheel’ files (.whl) for Python geospatial packages from https://github.com/cgohlke/geospatial-wheels. These are unofficial binary installers for some Python geospatial libraries on Windows prepared by Christoph Gohlke. Wheels for various packages, Python versions, and architectures are made available via GitHub releases, providing the ability to revert to prior versions when needed.
Installation
You can install the development version of {rgeowheels} like so:
# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("brownag/rgeowheels")Example
This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:
library(rgeowheels)
#> rgeowheels 0.0.5
#> Latest cached release: 2024-02-19
#> <https://github.com/cgohlke/geospatial-wheels/releases/tag/v2024.2.18>
# installing wheels only intended for Windows OS
if (Sys.info()["sysname"] == "Windows")
install_wheel("GDAL")
# latest version of GDAL, latest cpython, available for win_amd64 architecture
install_wheel("GDAL", url_only = TRUE)
#> [1] "https://github.com/cgohlke/geospatial-wheels/releases/download/v2024.2.18/GDAL-3.8.4-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl"
# most recent version of rasterio for cpython 3.8 is in v2023.1.10.1 release
install_wheel("rasterio", pyversion = "3.8", url_only = TRUE)
#> [1] "https://github.com/cgohlke/geospatial-wheels/releases/download/v2023.1.10.1/rasterio-1.3.4-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl"