[R-sig-Geo] Ingesting e00 files from the UNEP Nuclear Power Station dataset

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Jonathan Callahan
<jonathan.s.callahan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am having some difficulty ingesting e00 files from the following UNEP
> dataset:
>
> http://www.grid.unep.ch/GRID_search_details.php?dataid=GNV181
>
> Any short example showing how to do this would be greatly appreciated.

package rgdal can do it via readOGR - you just need to know what
sections of the e00 you need - for example in the sittot99.e00 you
probably want the LAB section:

 > lab=readOGR("sittot99.e00","LAB")
OGR data source with driver: AVCBin
Source: "sittot99.e00", layer: "LAB"
with 249 features and 16 fields
Feature type: wkbPoint with 2 dimensions
 > plot(lab)

 - giving the points of all the nuclear reactors.

Fuller docs here:

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_avce00.html


Barry