Dear Akos and Joe,
Thank you for your kind replies and the information. I did not know about
the character limit, it is easier for me to shorten the variable names.
Thank you again and stay safe.
Best,
Milu
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 5:58 PM Bede-Fazekas Ákos
wrote:
> Dear Milu,
> ESRI
Dear Milu,
ESRI shapefile format cannot contain field names longer than 10
characters. So you should do one of the following options:
- choose other file format when saving the data,
- rename the columns of the sf object before saving.
HTH,
Ákos Bede-Fazekas
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hi Milu,
It is not possible to preserve your field/variable name when creating ESRI
shapefiles as the maximum length of field names is limited to 10 character.
See https://community.esri.com/thread/63279
I believe the geopackage format does not have the 10 character limit, so
you may want to
Greetings,
i am trying to export a shapefile using the following command;
st_write(weight.sf, "weight.shp, driver="ESRI Shapefile")
But getting the following warning;
1: In abbreviate_shapefile_names(obj) :
Field names abbreviated for ESRI Shapefile driver
The variable names have the
