Hi! Could it be possible having the option stringsAsFactors=F available in readOGR() as it is in read.table() ? Thanks Agus -- View this message in context: http://r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/readOGR-stringsAsFactors-tp5034706p5034706.html Sent from the R-sig-geo mailing list archive at Nabble.com.