Revisions to draft article on using GDAL and R from conda-forge

[ctoney]

• incorporate suggestions and text from @matthewfeickert in Add web article: R and GDAL in conda #980
• change title to "Using R and GDAL from conda-forge"
• add section "Pixi for conda package management"
• update the list of GDAL driver plugins available on conda-forge
• add a link to the GDAL documentation on conda and pixi under "See also"
• minor edits throughout

[ctoney]

@matthewfeickert, no hurry to merge this if you have a chance to glance over at some point.

[matthewfeickert]

@ctoney Sorry for going dark on this. I was traveling internationally and then lost this in my notifications.

These are mostly tiny suggestions on things to remove rather than add, but I think you've already got things well covered here for the most part.

[matthewfeickert]

As I don't know these tools, is the goal to have them exist in standalone environments or all together? If together, they you need to create one global gdal environment with the others added as dependencies like

pixi global install gdal --with libgdal-core
pixi global install --environment gdal libgdal-arrow-parquet  # if needed

If so, then https://gdal.org/en/stable/download.html#cross-platform-package-managers should get updated too.

Also, depending on what CLI tools you need globally exposed you might also have to provide information on that.

If these were all designed to be in standalone environments then that's fine.

[ctoney]

I think the latter. gdal is the conda-forge package that provides GDAL Python bindings and Python utilities.

[ctoney]

@matthewfeickert, no problem. There was no hurry on this.

Thanks for the suggestions and information sharing. Your review and edits improved the article substantially. Thank you for taking the time on it.