[R-sig-Geo] readOGR ceased working since updating to R 2.15.2

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Alonso Nanclares, Jesús Alberto wrote:

> Solved.

You might care to report what the problem was? My guess is that you 
installed rgdal from the current R-forge development version, because the 
specific line you quote was present between revisions 404 (Tue Dec 11 
20:36:52) and 408 (Thu Dec 13 11:50:55). When reporting problems, always 
provide the output of sessionInfo(), and for rgdal, also the complete 
package startup message (which now includes the SVN revision). When 
installing development versions, do wait substantial time to see whether 
later commits do not remove the problem.

Roger

>
> Thanks anyways.
>
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> De: Alonso Nanclares, Jesús Alberto
> Enviado el: jueves, 13 de diciembre de 2012 16:34
> Para: 'r-sig-geo at r-project.org'
> Asunto: readOGR ceased working since updating to R 2.15.2
>
> Hello dear list,
>
> I have a problem with the function readOGR since I installed the last version of R, 2.15.2 and, consequently, had to install rgdal package again. I am using a script I ran just a moment before the update, when it worked perfectly, in which my intention is to read a shapefile. The command looks like this:
>
> secciones_espanya <- readOGR("INE_SPAIN.shp", "INE_SPAIN")
>
> And when I execute it I am showed this error:
>
> Error en file(paste(dsn, .Platform$file.sep, layer, ".dbf", sep = ""),  :
>  no se puede abrir la conexión
> Además: Mensajes de aviso perdidos
> In file(paste(dsn, .Platform$file.sep, layer, ".dbf", sep = ""),  :
>  no fue posible abrir el archivo 'INE_SPAIN.shp/INE_SPAIN.dbf': No such file or directory
>
> saying the connection could not be open.
>
> I have tried with other .shp of my PC that could also be read without problems before the update with the same results.
>
> Does anyone know why this is happening?
>
> Thanks in advance and greetings,
>
> Jesús Alberto Alonso Nanclares
> Consultor Junior
> Centro de Competencia Business Analytics
>
> Avda de Bruselas, 35
> 28108 Alcobendas (Madrid)
> España
>
> T +34 914 805 863
> jaalonson at indra.es<mailto:jaalonson at indra.es>
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>
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