GDAL driver error after installing stars in R

[jofeggg]

When I run perform_PCA funtion of the biodivMapR package, I got this error after installing stars package (latest version)

Error: lexical error: invalid char in json text.
Driver: ENVI/ENVI .hdr Labelled
(right here) ------^

Here is a link to the function code:

https://github.com/jbferet/biodivMapR/blob/master/R/Lib_PerformPCA.R

With stars 0.6-6 it worked perfectly

[jbferet]

dear @jofeggg and @edzer
The error is raised by the sf package v1.0-19 which seems to have lost compatibility with functions in gdalUtilities. The error does not occur when using sf v1.0-18 and stars v0.6-7.
an example code is provided here below to reproduce the error. The data are Sentinel-2 raster subsets downloaded from my repository and used as illustration for the package biodivMapR.
in this example, gdalUtilities::gdalinfo works with sf v1.0-18 (and stars v0.6-7), but the error reported by @jofeggg occurs with sf v1.0-19.

I will open an issue for sf.

library(magrittr)
# url for the S2 raster subset
url <- 'https://gitlab.com/jbferet/myshareddata/-/raw/master/biodivMapR_S2_Sample/RASTER/S2A_T33NUD_20180104_Subset'
destfile <- file.path(tempdir(),'S2A_T33NUD_20180104_Subset')
download.file(url = url, destfile = destfile, method = 'auto', quiet = FALSE, mode = "wb")
# url for the subset header
urlhdr <-  'https://gitlab.com/jbferet/myshareddata/-/raw/master/biodivMapR_S2_Sample/RASTER/S2A_T33NUD_20180104_Subset.hdr'
destfile_HDR <- paste0(destfile,'.hdr')
download.file(url = urlhdr, destfile = destfile_HDR, method = 'auto', quiet = FALSE, mode = "w")

gdalUtilities::gdalinfo(datasetname = destfile, json = TRUE, quiet = T) %>%
  jsonlite::fromJSON()

[edzer]

apparently an issue in gdalUtilities.