[R-sig-Geo] Load point shape file

[Danlin Yu]

Sunny:

For the first case, you probably shall set the path to where you store 
your shapefiles in the R main menu. In addition, as the warning message 
indicates, the readShapeSpatial function probably is better for spatial 
data management than read.shape. For the second case, other than setting 
the path, you also need to load the package (after installing it) by 
using library(rgdal).

Hope this helps,

Cheers,
Dr. Danlin Yu

Sunny ??:
> I am trying to load my point shape file to R. I searched for hours and found
> there are two ways, one is read.shape and the other one is readOGR. I tried
> both but but can't do it successfully. Any help is appreciate.
>
>   
>> x <- read.shape(system.file("test.shp", package="maptools")[1])
>>     
> Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : Error opening SHP file
> In addition: Warning message:
> use readShapeSpatial:
> objects other than Spatial objects defined in the sp package are deprecated
>
>
>   
>> install.packages('rgdal')
>> self<-readOGR(".","test")
>>     
> Error: could not find function "readOGR"
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