Merge pull request #16 from JGCRI/gdal-processing

Deprecating use of rgdal

DESCRIPTION

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Authors@R: c(person("Chris", "Vernon",
             person("Caleb", "Braun",
             email = "[email protected]",
             role = "aut"),
+            person("Kanishka B.", "Narayan",
+            email = "[email protected]",
+            role = "aut"),
             person("Pacific Northwest National Laboratory",
             role = "cph"))
 Description: The rgis package facilitates GIS functionality and workflows commonly reprented in propritary and open source GISs. This package does not contain functionality for visulization, but is focsed on geospatial algorithms for analysis, conversion, IO, modification, and workflows of spatial files and data structures.
@@ -25,7 +28,6 @@ Imports:
     doParallel,
     foreach,
     magrittr,
-    rgdal,
     smoothr,
     tibble,
     units,

NAMESPACE

@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ importFrom(raster,projection)
 importFrom(raster,raster)
 importFrom(raster,res)
 importFrom(raster,unique)
-importFrom(rgdal,readOGR)
 importFrom(sf,sf_use_s2)
 importFrom(sf,st_area)
 importFrom(sf,st_as_sf)

R/io.R

@@ -7,16 +7,15 @@
 #'
 #' @param shp_path character. A full path to the input shapefile with file name and extension
 #' @param quiet boolean.
-#' @param method tool used to convert to spatial data; either 'sf' or 'rgdal'
+#' @param method tool used to convert to spatial data; i.e. 'sf'
 #' @return sf object
 #' @author Chris R. Vernon ([email protected])
 #' @importFrom sf st_read
-#' @importFrom rgdal readOGR
 #' @export
 import_shapefile <- function(shp_path, quiet = TRUE, method = "sf") {
 
   if(method == "sf") return(st_read(shp_path, quiet = quiet))
-  if(method == "rgdal") return(readOGR(shp_path, verbose = !quiet))
+
 }