virtual file system

[mdsumner]

A VSIReadDirEx example thanks to @obrl-soil

remotes::install_github("hypertidy/vapour@VSI_list")
u <- "/vsizip//vsicurl/http://dapds00.nci.org.au/thredds/fileServer/rr2/national_geophysical_compilations/http/radmap_v3_2015_filtered_dose/radmap_v3_2015_filtered_dose.ers.zip"
vapour:::VSI_list(u)

[1] "radmap_v3_2015_filtered_dose"     "radmap_v3_2015_filtered_dose.ers"
[3] "radmap_v3_2015_filtered_dose.isi" "radmap_v3_2015_filtered_dose.txt"

Doc is here: https://www.gdal.org/gdal_virtual_file_systems.html

Discussed on twitter: https://twitter.com/obrl_soil/status/1087674550198820864

would be good to flesh this out a bit more, and get some functionality of gdal_ls.py in R.

[obrl-soil]

Cool! I'll try and find time for some experimentation asap

[mdsumner]

I pulled this into master just FYI with exported function vapour_vsi_list().