supposed to be read with the Excel map tool package and beleive confro to the MapInfo format.
I asked Roger Bivand at the recent useR!2004 meeting and he made several suggestions. Following the
leads he gave me, I found a small program (ogr2ogr) which translates my .tab files into .shp files,
which I can then read into R. The MapInfo format is explicitly supported.
I use Debian Linux (sarge), and ogr2ogr is part of the package gdal-bin. A batch
file like
for i in *.tab ; do ogr2ogr ${i%.*}.shp $i ; done
converted a bunch of files in a snap. Hope it may be of help to you.
ft.
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