[R] maptools no such file

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Rainer Hurling wrote:

> Roger,
>
> I tried your suggestions and ran into same problems as Pieter did before.
>

Rainer:

I don't think that we know what platform Pieter was using, apart from the 
working directory that looked like Windows, and where the problem could 
not be reproduced. I note that yours is FreeBSD 8, and I agree, the .C() 
interface to the small helper function should most likely be replaced by a 
.Call() to make handling the file name more robust. Can I send a modified 
version off-list tomorrow, since I have no access to your platform 
otherwise? Is readOGR() in rgdal working, by the way?

Roger

> 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
>
>

-- 
Roger Bivand
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Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
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