[R-sig-Geo] read prj file to CRS

[Patrick Giraudoux]

Dear all,

Definitely, I am not that clever with projection systems: I would like 
to read a *.prj file (part of a set of ESRI shapefiles) and get it in a 
CRS compatible format (handled by the  PROJ.4 projection system) and 
possibly added to sp objects where needed. What would would be the 
simplest way to do that? I am messing with rgdal and sp without result...

Cheers,

Patrick