[R-sig-Geo] readShapeSpatial error with 2.11.1

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, jroll wrote:

>
> Anyone encounter an issue with using the readShapeSpatial function 
> from maptools in the latest version of R.  I get a simple "Error in
> read.dbf(filen) : unable to open DBF file" but when i run the exact 
> script in 2.10.0 the script produces the map just fine.  What has changed
> or am i missing something/ 
>
> Sorry for no  code but i figured this may have been an unnecessary anyway.

update.packages()

In foreign, read.dbf() now requires a properly named file, not a file 
ending in *.shp. The update to maptools in early April (before 2.11.0 was 
released) fixed the problem.

Roger

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