Re: [R-sig-Geo] read shapfile in R

2012-12-04 Thread Michael Sumner
Try library(rgdal) data.shape <- readOGR(dsn="C:/Users/study/Desktop", layer="data") It's sort of confusing since shapefiles don't have layers, but GDAL allows the dsn to be a folder of shapefiles, and to treat individual shapefiles as layers within. That makes it consistent with other vector fo

[R-sig-Geo] read shapfile in R

2012-12-04 Thread Milan Sharma
Dear all, I have a shape file in my desktop. I could not read this file in R. The following are my codes, can somebody tell me how to do? None of these are working.. require(maptools) library(rgdal) ##my working directory is "C:/Users/study/Desktop". ##name of my shape file is data. shape <- re