[R-sig-Geo] readOGR and PostGIS: "Error getting field 0"

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Mathieu Basille wrote:

> Le 30/11/2012 11:27, Roger Bivand a écrit :
>> [...]
>> 
>> Thanks very much, this is the information needed, that there are no fields.
>> It appears that at least in this driver, readOGR() needs to be able to
>> return a geometry-only object, or to create a GID column in the data.frame.
>> I'll let you know when I've committed to R-forge, and will be very grateful
>> if you can check out the source package, install, and test whether the
>> changes have helped. It may take a little time to get there, but I'll give
>> it priority.
>
> I'd be happy to test when it's ready! However, no need to hurry: in the 
> meantime, it is still possible (and easy) to add a dummy field to make 
> readOGR work.

OK, thanks. SVN revision 389 committed to R-forge project rgdal, checkout 
from:

svn checkout svn://scm.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/rgdal/pkg

and rename pkg -> rgdal (to avoid getting multiple branches), then try
R CMD check rgdal, if OK INSTALL, and try your problem.

Roger

>
> Thank you very much for you work!
> Mathieu.
>
>
>> Roger
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