[R-sig-Geo] readOGR not reading in prj file?

[Vinh Nguyen]

On Apr 7, 2016 12:58 AM, "Roger Bivand" <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Vinh Nguyen wrote:
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>> 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)?
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>> Thanks Edzer, upgrading rgdal to 1.1.8 works.  Consider this issue close.
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>
> For completeness, which OS was this, and how was GDAL installed - do you
recall what GDAL version was reported when rgdal loaded?
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> If Windows CRAN binary, it is possible that the underlying GDAL version
of the spatial reference code and EPSG databases changed - there were no
relevant changes in rgdal itself, I think.
>

Windows. I don't have the log with gdal version. Your assessment is
probably correct. Thanks.

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