[R-sig-Geo] reading gpx using readOGR

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Roman Luštrik <roman.lustrik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Roger for taking interest in this. Your time is very appreciated.
>
> I do have a "standalone" gdal version installed (from a while back) but I
> think it may be "dead". I can't access ogrinfo through a command prompt
> (only if I run a special .bat that sets up the SDK shell) even though I have
> the /gdal/bin in my PATH. If I run ogrinfo in the aforementioned SDK shell,

 Is it permissions or access rights on the file? system.file only
checks for existence, not readability.

 Try foo = scan(dsn,what="") and see if that reads it.

Barry