On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote: > When I replace the .prj file of an arbitrary shapefile with these > contents, it gets read well. Have you tried with current R (3.2.4) and > rgdal (1.1.7)? Thanks Edzer, upgrading rgdal to 1.1.8 works. Consider this issue close. -- Vinh