[R] Error opening SHP file

Jim Lemon drjimlemon at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 02:38:28 CET 2016


Hi Amoy,
Another mystery question. I should have pursued parapsychology. That error
statement is usually followed by one noting that the file specified cannot
be found. Today's guess is that the R working directory:

getwd()

did not have a "maps" directory below it.

Jim


On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Amoy Yang via R-help <r-help at r-project.org
> wrote:

>  Any advice for the following errors?
> state.map <- readShapeSpatial("maps/st24_d00.shp")
> Error in getinfo.shape(fn) : Error opening SHP file
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