A recent announcement as a follow up to this: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/geodatabase/archive/2010/12/13/File-Geodatabase-API-details.aspx
Still requires ESRI software, but will allow some other projects to read the format if ArcRequired is available. Cheers, Mike. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Michael Sumner <mdsum...@gmail.com> wrote: > No there is no open software to read ESRI "file geodatabases" (the .gdb ones). > > If it's not .gdb but .mdb ("personal geodatabase", built on Microsoft > Access database) then you can read it with generic tools (such as > RODBC package) or with an appropriate build of GDAL as part of the > rgdal package. > > Some discussion here: > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/910/file-geodatabase-open-api-when > > http://www.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-November/014712.html > > Cheers, Mike. > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Al Kirschbaum <aakir...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello- >> >> Does anyone know if R can read in ESRI file geodatabase feature >> classes, directly from the file geodatabase? I currently have to >> export the data out of Arc, to a csv file, then read the csv file. I'd >> like to bypass this step and read directly from the file geodatabase. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> -al >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > Michael Sumner > Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania > Hobart, Australia > e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com > -- Michael Sumner Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.