Assistance getting gdalUtils "self contained"?

[jgrn307]

Folks, one of the issues that I think may be solvable is to get gdalUtils self-contained much like rgdal is (where a user doesn't have to manually install GDAL). However, I have no experience installing external software from within an R package install. Is this something someone out there would be willing to help me with?

[edzer]

You could look into how CRAN package x13binary does this. Alternatively, the gdal utilities interfaced through the GDAL utils C API are available through the sf function gdal_utils; see here but better/more documentation is needed; this may not cover all the utilities you need (in particular those that are Python scripts are missing out, obviously).