Revdep error (sf 1.0.16, GDAL 3.9.0 beta1, R 4.4.0)

[rsbivand]

There is an error detected when running revdeps on sf and terra for the forthcoming GDAL 3.9.0 for R CMD check on this package:
00check.log.

Stepping through the vignette code, I see:

Warning message:
In CPL_gdalvectortranslate(source, destination, options, oo, doo,  :
  GDAL Error 1: Field ' highway' not found in source layer.

then:

Error in sf::gdal_utils(util = "vectortranslate", source = normalizePath(file_path),  : 
  gdal_utils vectortranslate: an error occured

Is this the GDAL version, has something changed internally, or is highway actually absent?

[Robinlovelace]

Thanks for the report Roger. Not sure what's going on... Thoughts Andrea?

[edzer]

Unless this is a copy & paste error, the space in ' highway' looks suspicious.

[rsbivand]

The error is triggered at:

osmextract/vignettes/osmextract.Rmd

Line 611 in 20742aa

its_leeds = oe_get("ITS Leeds", vectortranslate_options = my_vectortranslate, quiet = FALSE)

, with the options set in the chunk above, and eventually appears from:

osmextract/R/vectortranslate.R

Line 455 in 20742aa

sf::gdal_utils(

after a fair number of steps.

[edzer]

Removing the space before highway here:

osmextract/vignettes/osmextract.Rmd

Line 602 in 20742aa

"-select", "osm_id, highway",

resolves the vignette error.

[agila5]

Thank you very much @rsbivand and @edzer for raising this issue and diagnosing/correcting the error in the vignette. Should be fixed now. Will submit to CRAN during the next week.

[rsbivand]

Yes, when the space is removed, this now is fixed:
00check.log

[Robinlovelace]

Impressively fast problem identification, diagnosis, and fix! Many thanks.

[agila5]

Thanks again! Nice example that the new approach in GDAL 3.9.0 works 😅