allign_rasters not working anymore after update to gdal 3.1.4

[michielvandijk]

I am regularly using allign_rasters to harmonize rasters for further analysis. After I updated gdal to 3.1.4 using OSGEO4W64 (from gdal 3.0 I think), this function is no longer working. I inspected the underlying code and the error seems to be related to the gdalinfo function which is called. This function is supposed to read a $proj4 slot, which now seems to be NA and before provided the crs that is needed for gdalwarp that is run next. I suspect that the error is related with the recent update to proj6 as extensively discussed here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/vignettes/PROJ6_GDAL3.html.

Any advice would be appreciated. Below my session info and gdal info

sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] raster_3.4-5 sp_1.4-5 gdalUtils_2.0.3.2 wpgpDownloadR_0.1.0 RCurl_1.98-1.2
[6] countrycode_1.2.0 sf_0.9-7 glue_1.4.2 scales_1.1.1 readxl_1.3.1
[11] forcats_0.5.0 stringr_1.4.0 dplyr_1.0.3 purrr_0.3.4 readr_1.4.0
[16] tidyr_1.1.2 tibble_3.0.5 ggplot2_3.3.3 tidyverse_1.3.0 here_1.0.1
[21] pacman_0.5.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.6 lattice_0.20-41 lubridate_1.7.9.2 class_7.3-17 assertthat_0.2.1
[6] rprojroot_2.0.2 digest_0.6.27 foreach_1.5.1 R6_2.5.0 cellranger_1.1.0
[11] backports_1.2.0 reprex_0.3.0 evaluate_0.14 e1071_1.7-4 httr_1.4.2
[16] pillar_1.4.7 rlang_0.4.10 rstudioapi_0.13 R.oo_1.24.0 R.utils_2.10.1
[21] rmarkdown_2.6 rgdal_1.5-23 munsell_0.5.0 broom_0.7.3 compiler_4.0.2
[26] modelr_0.1.8 xfun_0.20 pkgconfig_2.0.3 htmltools_0.5.1 tidyselect_1.1.0
[31] codetools_0.2-18 fansi_0.4.2 crayon_1.3.4 dbplyr_2.0.0 withr_2.4.0
[36] R.methodsS3_1.8.1 bitops_1.0-6 grid_4.0.2 jsonlite_1.7.2 gtable_0.3.0
[41] lifecycle_0.2.0 DBI_1.1.1 magrittr_2.0.1 units_0.6-7 KernSmooth_2.23-18
[46] cli_2.2.0 stringi_1.5.3 fs_1.5.0 xml2_1.3.2 ellipsis_0.3.1
[51] generics_0.1.0 vctrs_0.3.6 iterators_1.0.13 tools_4.0.2 hms_1.0.0
[56] yaml_2.2.1 colorspace_2.0-0 classInt_0.4-3 rvest_0.3.6 knitr_1.30
[61] haven_2.3.1

getOption("gdalUtils_gdalPath")
[[1]]
[[1]]$path
[1] "C:/OSGEO4~1/bin/"

[[1]]$version
version
"3.1.4"

[[1]]$date
date
"2020-10-20"

[[1]]$drivers
format_code read write update virtualIO subdatasets
1 ECW-raster- TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
2 JP2ECW-raster,vector- TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
3 GeoRaster-raster- TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE
4 HDF5-raster,multidimensionalraster- TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE TRUE
5 HDF5Image-raster- TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
6 BAG-raster- TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE
7 MG4Lidar-raster- TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
8 MrSID-raster- TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
9 JP2MrSID-raster- TRUE FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE
10 VRT-raster,multidimensionalraster- TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE
11 DERIVED-raster- TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE
12 GTiff-raster- TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
13 COG-raster- FALSE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE
14 NITF-raster- TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
format_name
1 ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 5.3)
2 ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 5.3)
3 Oracle Spatial GeoRaster
4 Hierarchical Data Format Release 5
5 HDF5 Dataset
6 Bathymetry Attributed Grid
7 MrSID Generation 4 / Lidar (.sid)
8 Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
9 MrSID JPEG2000
10 Virtual Raster
11 Derived datasets using VRT pixel functions
12 GeoTIFF
13 Cloud optimized GeoTIFF generator
14 National Imagery Transmission Format
[ reached 'max' / getOption("max.print") -- omitted 137 rows ]

[[1]]$python_utilities
[[1]]$python_utilities$C:/OSGEO4~1/bin/
character(0)