[R-sig-Geo] Conversion of a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame into a ESRI file

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Francis Markham <fmarkham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Barry,
>
> I agree this is not a bug in R but a well known bug in ArcGIS. I guess
> misphrased my question - I would like to make a feature request for rgdal to
> have a parameter that makes field names (and contents) "safe" for ArcGIS, as
> I suspect I am not alone in producing shapefiles in R for consumption by
> ArcGIS users.

 Careful now, or I'll get into a rant about how much you pay for
ArcGIS and whether you are getting value for money if bugs become
'well-known'!

 Bugs in R tend to be either 'obscure' or 'fixed' :)

Barry