[R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Dan Putler <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca> wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> A bit off-topic, but what do you think will be the real replacement for
> the shapefile as the de facto standard vector file format? SpatialLite?
>

 Some thoughts on that here:

http://moreati.org.uk/blog/2009/03/01/shapefile-20-manifesto/
http://www.spatialdbadvisor.com/blog/121/the-shapefile-manifesto/

SpatialLite is very nice looking - I might start working with it as my
default file-based GIS data storage. For database storage I'm using
PostGIS.

Barry