[R-sig-Geo] Building Windows binary of rgdal package to include PGeo driver for reading ESRI personal geodatabases.

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Michael Denslow
<michael.denslow at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry to join this discuss late, but I have also been curious about
> reading ESRI geodatabases since I teach with ArcGIS and work with
> rgdal for my own research purposes. I have two questions that I hope
> are not too off topic.
>
> 1. I have the most recent rgdal version (rgdal_0.7-8) build from
> source and Pgeo driver list says FALSE. I am using MAC OS 10.6. Can
> you point me to documentation to use this on Mac OS?
>
> 2. Alternatively, I noticed that GDAL 1.9 has a new driver for .mdb
> (http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News). However this
> makes reference to Pgeo.
> Will this driver change things significantly?
>
> I am still using GDAL 1.8 downloaded from
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts and/or advice,
> Michael

I just read your email just after reading this blog entry:

http://www.structuralknowledge.com/2012/02/03/why-esri-as-is-cant-be-part-of-the-open-government-movement/

 so good luck with reading ESRI databases....

Barry