[R] read ESRI file geodatabase feature classes

[Michael Sumner]

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 <mdsumner at 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 <aakirsch at 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
>>
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Michael Sumner
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia
e-mail: mdsumner at gmail.com