[R-sig-Geo] Field names abbreviated for ESRI Shapefile driver

[Joe Lewis]

Hi  Milu,

It is not possible to preserve your field/variable name when creating ESRI
shapefiles as the maximum length of field names is limited to 10 character.

See https://community.esri.com/thread/63279

I believe the geopackage format does not have the 10 character limit, so
you may want to try that.

Hope it helps.

Kind regards,
Joseph Lewis

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 4:38 PM Miluji Sb <milujisb using gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> i am trying to export a shapefile using the following command;
>
> st_write(weight.sf, "weight.shp, driver="ESRI Shapefile")
>
> But getting the following warning;
>
> 1: In abbreviate_shapefile_names(obj) :
>   Field names abbreviated for ESRI Shapefile driver
>
> The variable names have the following pattern; "weight_2010" but
> become like this "w__201". How can I preserve field/variable names? Thank
> you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Milu
>
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