[R-sig-Geo] spTransform error: Error in CRS(

[Ken]

Ken <katakagi <at> bu.edu> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> I'm trying to use the CRS() function with spTransform() in the "sp" and 
> "rgdal" package to reproject some spatial data using Rstudio in Ubuntu 
> 14.10:
> 
> library(sp)
> library(rgdal)
> somePolygons <- readOGR(file.path(fp), "someShapefile")
> somePolygons_reproj <- spTransform(somePolygons, CRS("+init=EPSG:26920"))
> 
> the function readOGR() works fine, but I get the following error when I 
> try and run spTransform():
> Error in spTransform(WBDHU12, CRS("+init=EPSG:4269")) :
> error in evaluating the argument 'CRSobj' in selecting a method for 
> function 'spTransform': Error in CRS("+init=EPSG:4269") : no system 
> list, errno: 2
> 


Just realized that capitalizing "EPSG" was the reason that I was getting 
the error:

somePolygons_reproj <- spTransform(somePolygons, CRS("+init=epsg:26920")) 

works fine.