[R-sig-Geo] Error importing ESRI Shapefile

[Frede Aakmann Tøgersen]

Hi Alec

It is very impolite to cross post you questions. Besides the r-sig-geo you have probably posted on

1) http://onlinedevs.com/problem-reading-shapefile-using-r/ 
2) http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/138217/problem-reading-shapefile-using-r 
3) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28957014/error-reading-in-esri-shapefile-using-r 

Are those sites sharing information? Do people on those sites see my specific answer to your question on r-sig-geo?

Also please do not post in html but in plain text. Set your email client to post in text when posting to r-sig-geo.

Nobody can really help you. You give no information from which we can see why you get this error message.

To make you help us to help you please do something along this route. If you get an error please issue an

> traceback()

at command prompt in the R shell. Now do this at R prompt:

> library(rgdal)

and post the output from that call probably something like this:

" Loading required package: sp
rgdal: version: 0.9-1, (SVN revision 518)
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.11.1, released 2014/09/24
Path to GDAL shared files: c:/Programmer/R/R-3.1.2/library/rgdal/gdal
GDAL does not use iconv for recoding strings.
Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.8.0, 6 March 2012, [PJ_VERSION: 480]
Path to PROJ.4 shared files: c:/Programmer/R/R-3.1.2/library/rgdal/proj"

> sessionInfo()

Post the output!

> ogrDrivers()

> dsn <- "/path/to/layer"

> file.choose(dsn)

Can you see any shapefiles?

> ogrListLayers(dsn)

Can you see any layer names?

> ogrInfo(dsn=dsn, layer="layer")

Any information from this call?


Yours sincerely / Med venlig hilsen


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-sig-Geo [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Alec
> Friedhoff
> Sent: 10. marts 2015 07:21
> To: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] Error importing ESRI Shapefile
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to read in a Shapefile using the rgdal library, and am unable to do
> so.When using the following code, geo <-
> readOGR("/path/to/layer","layer"),I'm met with the error "Error in
> stopifnot(is.list(srl)) : infinite label point"
> This one has me stumped. My searches haven't yielded any useful
> information about this error. I suspect there are some bad geometries in the
> underlying file. I have access to ArcMap and tried running the
> RepairGeometry_management method of arcpy, but this has no effect.
> How can I go about understanding this error and ultimately fixing it?
> Many thanks!
> -HR
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