[R-sig-Geo] Converting kml to shape (readOGR)

Edzer Pebesma edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de
Tue Jan 6 12:15:49 CET 2009



Henk Sierdsema wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to convert a vector kml-file to an ESRI shape with readOGR(), but I don't manage to read the kml-file. Can anyone help me with this? 
>   
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html mentions at KML that "read 
support needs libexpat". Further it says "KML reading is only available 
if GDAL/OGR is built with the Expat XML Parser, otherwise only KML 
writing will be supported."

Maybe this was missing while your gdal/rgdal was built?
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Edzer
> Thnx,
>
> Henk Sierdsema
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