[R] troubles with foreign:read.dbf

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Ashes of my head and all those sorts of things...
If I was a totally a newbie in R, I could claim for some sort of excuse, 
but it is definitely not the case, even.
Thanks !
Patrick


Le 20/04/2019 à 19:13, Eric Berger a écrit :
> You seem to have a typo.
> In the case that works your filename is "Mailles_2011a.dbf"
> but in the case that fails your filename is "Mailles_2011a.shp"
> (different extensions)
>
> HTH,
> Eric
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 8:00 PM Patrick Giraudoux 
> <patrick.giraudoux using univ-fcomte.fr 
> <mailto:patrick.giraudoux using univ-fcomte.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Dear listers,
>
>     I am using the package foreign function read.dbf and meet the
>     following
>     issue:
>
>     i<-"Mailles_2011a.dbf"
>
>     dbf<-read.dbf(i)
>
>     works well BUT
>
>     if I have a vector such as
>
>     files <- c("Mailles_2011a.shp", "Mailles_2011p.shp",
>     "Mailles_2012a.shp", "Mailles_2012p.shp", "Mailles_2013a.shp",
>     "Mailles_2013p.shp", "Mailles_2014p.shp", "Mailles_2015a.shp",
>     "Mailles_2015p.shp", "Mailles_2016p.shp")
>
>     for(i in files) {
>     dbf<-read.dbf(i)
>     names(dbf)
>     }
>
>     gives the following error message:
>
>     Error in read.dbf(i) : unable to open DBF file
>
>     Same error with e.g.
>
>     dbf<-read.dbf(files[1])
>
>     Any idea about what's happening?
>
>     Patrick
>
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