Roger,
I tried your suggestions and ran into same problems as Pieter did before.
On 28.01.2008 12:35 (UTC+1), Roger Bivand wrote:
> <pieterprovoost <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> No, I get the same error message there...
>
> Please do not needlesly delete the thread content. Your original question was:
>
> "I'm having problems reading a shapefile with read.shape (maptools). I'm
> absolutely sure my file is there, but I get "no such file". The wd is ok,
> since read.table for example does find the file.
>
For testing I copied /usr/local/lib/R/library/rgdal/vectors/cities.shp
into /usr/home/rhurlin/TEMP/Rscripts/
>> getwd()
> [1] "D:/somedirectory/R scripts"
[1] "/usr/home/rhurlin/TEMP/Rscripts"
>> read.table("cities.shp")
> Error in read.table("cities.shp") : empty beginning of file
> In addition: Warning message:
> In read.table("cities.shp") :
> incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'cities.shp'"
>
> which is self-explanatory, because you were not using read.shape() anyway.
>
> You continued:
>
> "> read.shape("cities.shp")
> Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : No such file"
Fehler in getinfo.shape(filen) : No such file
> but did not respond to the suggestion from an R-helper with the output from:
>
> readShapePoly("cities.shp")
Fehler in getinfo.shape(filen) : No such file
> Try list.files(pattern="shp$") to see whether your assumption that the files
> are
> where you think they are, is justified.
[1] "cities.shp"
> Then get back with the output of
>
> getinfo.shape("cities.shp")
Fehler in getinfo.shape("cities.shp") : No such file
> If you want to, you can use file.choose() to choose the file interactively.
>
> If you haven't solved this yourself by then (found the files youself), do
> remember to include the verbatim output of sessionInfo() too.
R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26)
i386-unknown-freebsd8.0 # This is 8.0-CURRENT from yesterday
locale:
de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15/C/de_DE.ISO8859-15/de_DE.ISO8859-15
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets grid methods
[8] base
other attached packages:
[1] maptools_0.7-4 sp_0.9-19 foreign_0.8-23 proto_0.3-8
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] ggplot2_0.5.7 lattice_0.17-4 rcompgen_0.1-17
> Roger Bivand
It seems, that the C call of 'Rshapeinfo' makes trouble on my system.
Rshapeinfo.c tries to open the shapefile with the following code:
hSHP = SHPOpen( shpnm[0], "rb" );
If I did not misunderstood, this returns NULL on my system.
I have almost no C programming skills, so I am not able to understand
the code enough.
Could something be wrong in using 'gettext'? (GNU gettext-runtime 0.16.1)
Hope this helps a bit,
Rainer
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