[R-sig-Geo] writeOGR issue in dbf

[Robert J. Hijmans]

I think the problem is an illegal variable name  "dist.m"

This works for me:

data(meuse)
coordinates(meuse)=~x+y
names(meuse)[12] = 'distm'
writeOGR(meuse,".","test",driver="ESRI Shapefile")

Robert

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, caspar hallmann wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am using writeOGR to create an ESRI shapefile from a
>> SpatialPointsDataFrame. When opening the shapefile in ArcMap and ask
>> for the attributes, I get an error "A column was specified that does
>> not exist".
>
> I only have other tools using OGR (GRASS, QGIS) and Excel 2003 SP3 on
> Windows XP. Your example cannot be reproduced using those. I suspect from
> trying to interpret the entrails of ESRI "help", that an integer column is
> required reproducing the FID values already encoded in the *.shp. Try:
>
> meuse$FIDs <- 1:nrow(meuse)
>
> and write out again. This doesn't match your simple copying to get it to
> read, though. If others could comment who have access to Arc (which
> version), that would be useful. Please include a copy of the messages
> displayed when rgdal is loaded, so that we have control of the versions.
>
> Does changing locale make a difference?
>
> Roger
>
>> Similarly, when opening the dbf of the shapefile in Paradox I get
>> "Unable to open table. Corrupt table/index header".
>> This does not only happen to my own Dataset but also the meuse data.
>>
>> data(meuse)
>> coordinates(meuse)=~x+y
>> class(meuse)
>> writeOGR(meuse,".","test",driver="ESRI Shapefile")
>> # then try ArcMap or Paradox fails as mentioned above.
>> #Strangely, when i do
>> write.dbf(read.dbf("test.dbf"),file="test2")
>> #then renaming test2 into test, my attribute tables open up fine, and
>> Paradox stops complaining.
>>
>> any clues?
>>
>> Caspar.
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>>
>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Netherlands.1252  LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Netherlands.1252
>>  LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Netherlands.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> [5] LC_TIME=Dutch_Netherlands.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] pscl_1.03.3        coda_0.13-4        mvtnorm_0.9-9
>> automap_1.0-5      MASS_7.3-5         lme4_0.999375-32
>> Matrix_0.999375-33 maptools_0.7-29
>> [9] lattice_0.18-3     foreign_0.8-39     raster_0.9.9-24
>> rgdal_0.6-24       gstat_0.9-66       sp_0.9-57
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] grid_2.10.1  tools_2.10.1
>>
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>
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