Agreed, definitely beyond r-sig-geo scope.

Be apprised, though, that Google will be of some assistance in your quest.
eg: http://www.vterrain.org/Distrib/gdal.html

Good luck.

Greg.

2009/1/7 Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de>

> That's a question beyond the scope of r-sig-geo, IMO; it's in the R
> documentation and/or faqs.
> --
> Edzer
>
>
> Henk Sierdsema wrote:
>
>> I have installed Expat XML Parser, but how do I rebuilt GDAL/OGR?
>>
>> Henk
>>
>>
>> Henk Sierdsema
>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: Edzer Pebesma [mailto:edzer.pebesma@uni-muenster.de]
>> Verzonden: dinsdag 6 januari 2009 12:16
>> Aan: Henk Sierdsema
>> CC: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Onderwerp: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Converting kml to shape (readOGR)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Henk Sierdsema wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been trying to convert a vector kml-file to an ESRI shape with
>>> readOGR(), but I don't manage to read the kml-file. Can anyone help me with
>>> this?
>>>
>> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html mentions at KML that "read
>> support needs libexpat". Further it says "KML reading is only available if
>> GDAL/OGR is built with the Expat XML Parser, otherwise only KML writing will
>> be supported."
>>
>> Maybe this was missing while your gdal/rgdal was built?
>> --
>> Edzer
>>
>>
>>> Thnx,
>>>
>>> Henk Sierdsema
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>
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