vect() error for .kml files on Linux

[AMBarbosa]

On Windows, .kml files are read as expected (except maybe for the warning message); but on Linux (system info below) there's also an error and the file is not read:

download.file("https://filesamples.com/samples/code/kml/sample3.kml", "sample3.kml")
library(terra)
v <- vect("sample3.kml")
# Error: [vect] cannot read this geometry type: Unknown (any)
# In addition: Warning message:
# [vect] Z coordinates ignored 

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Linux Mint 21.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libopenblasp-r0.3.20.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=pt_PT.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=pt_PT.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.1.2   tools_4.1.2      rstudioapi_0.14  Rcpp_1.0.10     
[5] codetools_0.2-19 terra_1.7-21    

[rhijmans]

I can reproduce this. It does not seem to be related to the version of GDAL. My guess is that it is related to the version of the library that reads KML (that is then used by GDAL).

[rhijmans]

This now works, although there is a difference between linux (11 attributes) and windows (2 attributes), presumably due to a difference in the underlying KML library.