Are the output files already there? In that case, try overwrite_layer=TRUE -Don
-- Don MacQueen Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-627 Livermore, CA 94550 925-423-1062 On 8/17/12 9:28 AM, "Scott Duke-Sylvester" <scottdukesylves...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have a quick question: It appears that in rgdal v0.7-12 (R version >2.15.1, OSX 10.6.8) writeOGR will not write a shapefile the the >current directory. Is this correct? An earlier version of rgdal must >have allowed this because I have a older script that used to work, but >doesn't now. > >So, as an example, here is what I get today: > >> shape = readOGR('.', layer='S20_G75_V00_HAASHP10_R00') >OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile >Source: ".", layer: "S20_G75_V00_HAASHP10_R00" >with 169 features and 23 fields >Feature type: wkbPolygon with 2 dimensions > >> writeOGR(shape, '.', layer='temp', driver='ESRI Shapefile', >>verbose=TRUE) >Error in writeOGR(shape, ".", layer = "temp", driver = "ESRI Shapefile") : > Creation of output file failed > >> writeOGR(shape, '/tmp', layer='temp', driver='ESRI >>Shapefile',verbose=TRUE) >$object_type >[1] "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame" > >$output_dsn >[1] "/tmp" > >$output_layer >[1] "temp" > >$output_diver >[1] "ESRI Shapefile" > >$output_n >[1] 169 > >$output_nfields >[1] 23 > >$output_fields > [1] "ID" "ANID" "F_AREA" "Avg_z" "Manning" > [6] "IniWL" "IniSal" "DispCoeff" "HydRad" "veg1_DW" >[11] "veg2_IW" "veg3_SW" "veg4_DC" "veg5_IC" "veg6_SC" >[16] "veg7_Marsh" "veg8_Swamp" "Rain_StID" "Wetland" "Openwater" >[21] "iniBed_m" "maxH_m" "BoxID" > >$output_fclasses > [1] 0 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 4 > >$dataset_options >NULL > >$layer_options >NULL > > >-- >Scott M. Duke-Sylvester >Assistant Professor >Department of Biology > >Office : 300 E. St. Mary Blvd > Billeaud Hall, Room 141 > Lafayette, LA 70504 > >Mailing address : UL Lafayette > Department of Biology > P.O.Box 42451 > Lafayette, LA 70504-2451 > >Phone : 337 482 5304 >Fax : 337 482 5834 >email : smd3...@louisiana.edu > > >This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for t...{{dropped:11}} > >______________________________________________ >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. ______________________________________________ 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.