Problems with rgdal::readOGR and int64

with-gdal-1.x.txt

> library(rgdal)
Loading required package: sp
rgdal: version: 1.1-10, (SVN revision 622)
 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
 Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.11.5, released 2016/07/01
 Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/local/Cellar/gdal/1.11.5_1/share/gdal
 Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.9.3, 15 August 2016, [PJ_VERSION: 493]
 Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)
 Linking to sp version: 1.2-3 
> spdf <- tigris::states()
> sapply(spdf@data, class)
     REGION    DIVISION     STATEFP     STATENS       GEOID      STUSPS        NAME        LSAD 
"character" "character" "character" "character" "character" "character" "character" "character" 
      MTFCC    FUNCSTAT       ALAND      AWATER    INTPTLAT    INTPTLON 
"character" "character"   "numeric"   "numeric" "character" "character"
> range(spdf@data$ALAND)
[1] 1.583650e+08 1.477946e+12

with-gdal-2.x.txt

> library(rgdal)
Loading required package: sp
rgdal: version: 1.1-10, (SVN revision 622)
 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
 Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 2.0.1, released 2015/09/15
 Path to GDAL shared files: C:/Users/user001/R.libs/rgdal/gdal
 Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.9.2, 08 September 2015, [PJ_VERSION: 492]
 Path to PROJ.4 shared files: C:/Users/user001/R.libs/rgdal/proj
 Linking to sp version: 1.2-3 
> spdf <- tigris::states()
> sapply(spdf@data, class)
   REGION  DIVISION   STATEFP   STATENS     GEOID    STUSPS      NAME      LSAD     MTFCC  FUNCSTAT 
 "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor"  "factor" 
    ALAND    AWATER  INTPTLAT  INTPTLON 
"integer" "integer"  "factor"  "factor" 
> range(spdf@data$ALAND)
[1]  158364992 2147483647