Hi Erin,

the dbf file stores the attributes of your points. Google "shapefile wikipedia" to see more about the format. It could be that no dbf file will be created if you have no attributes in the data frame; you can readily check that with a test.

Oh, and yes, shapefiles are probably  the simplest format to import spatial R data into ArcGIS.

Yours,

Ashton

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