[R-sig-Geo] problem writing GML file

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Michael Denslow
<michael.denslow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear r-sig-geo,
>

> I was able to make a SpatialPointsDataFrame just fine with the
> following commands.
>> library(rgdal)
>> coordinates(floras) = c('long.cent.W','lat.cent.N')
>> class(floras)
> [1] "SpatialPointsDataFrame"
> attr(,"package")
> [1] "sp"
>
> but when I run writeOGR, I get an error
>
>> writeOGR(floras,paste(getwd(),'florasTEST.gml',sep='/'),'floras', driver = 'GML')
> Error in writeOGR(floras, paste(getwd(), "florasTEST.gml", sep = "/"),  :
>  unknown data type

That's weird - writeOGR looks like it should output the type and class
of the column when it gets this problem:

else stop(paste(dfcls[i], dftof[i], "unknown data type"))

 - unless you're on a different version. Try running writeOGR in debug
mode - do:

debug(writeOGR)

then run your writeOGR function call. Hit return to step a line at a
time, and inspect variables. Or how about cutting some of your
variables out and seeing what fixes it/breaks it?

your sp object only seemed to have factors, numbers, and logicals and
so writeOGR shouldnt have any problem with it...

Barry

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