As I said in my last post, rgdal lacks some of the features of GDAL, including the ability to subset columns and rows the source layer, and I demonstrated a workaround. The workaround relied upon the RPostgreSQL package, and this raises a question: Is it possible to transfer geographic data from PostGIS to R just using RPostgreSQL?

It is, and in fact, this may be necessary if you are working on Windows. Continue reading Load PostGIS geometries in R without rgdal →