[R-sig-Geo] problem with Maptools pack

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, gianni lavaredo wrote:

> Dear Reseachers
>
> I have a problem to read the Help file of maptools and now I see I have a
> problem to read.shape fucntion. I download the new version of R (2.10.1)
>
> library(maptools)
> x <- read.shape("sample.shp", package="maptools")
> Error: I don't find the function "read.shape"

Please refer to:

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2009-December/007256.html

for details of the retirement of long deprecated functions. If you must 
use read.shape(), use maptools:::read.shape() to access it within the 
package namespace.

Roger

>
> it's the first time I have this problem, sorry for desturb
>
> Gianni
>
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Roger Bivand
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