[R] RGDAL OGRwrite question

[MacQueen, Don]

For what (little) it's worth, writeOGR() is working for me
  OS X 10.6.8
  rgdal_0.7-12
May be time to ask on r-sig-geo.
Same directory permissions

Simple somewhat diagnostic test would be to try writing somewhere else,
such as a subdirectory.

-Don

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On 8/17/12 12:23 PM, "Scott Duke-Sylvester" <scottdukesylvester at gmail.com>
wrote:

>In the example I gave, the "temp.shp", 'temp.bdf", etc ... do not
>exist in the current working directory (".") before I call:
>writeOGR(shape, '.', layer='temp', driver='ESRI Shapefile', verbose=TRUE)
>
>I should have specified this. Also, the working directory permissions
>are set to owner read/write/execute (unix: drwxr-xr-x).
>
>
>
>On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:17 PM, MacQueen, Don <macqueen1 at llnl.gov> wrote:
>> 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"
>><scottdukesylvester at 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
>>>
>>>
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>Department of Biology
>
>Office : 300 E. St. Mary Blvd
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>             Lafayette, LA 70504
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