[R-sig-Geo] issue with readOGR

[Roger Bivand]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Abdoulaye Sarr wrote:

> I am trying to read a shapefile using readOGR but keep getting error
> messages:
> map =
> readOGR(dsn=path.expand("/Volumes/DS2S/R_QGIS_codes//Data"),"indicator")
> Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv =
> use_iconv,  :
>  Cannot open layer

What is "/Volumes/DS2S/R_QGIS_codes//Data"? If a network drive, some OGR 
drivers are known not to work with them (or that used to be the case). 
Which OS/Platform is this? Is the repeated "//" correct? Can you see the 
file running list.files("/Volumes/DS2S/R_QGIS_codes//Data") ?

Roger

>
> What could be causing the problem? sp 1.3-2
>
> Thanks
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