I've experienced the same problem. How would one go about submitting a bug
report to rgdal on this?

-F

On 22 March 2012 01:47, Cristina Silva <csilva@ipimar.pt> wrote:

> Thanks Joona and Bastien for your contribution. In fact, the problem was
> that I also had a dot in a variable name. After changing this, everything
> was OK.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cristina
>
>
> On 21/03/2012 12:05, Bastien.Ferland-Raymond@mrnf.**gouv.qc.ca<Bastien.Ferland-Raymond@mrnf.gouv.qc.ca>wrote:
>
>> I Cristina,
>>
>> I personally had success with the writeOGR of the rgdal package to export
>> shape to ESRI.  I initially had the same error as you, which is not being
>> able to get the dbf to display the data properly.  As Joona said, the
>> problem was related to the field names.  In my case, if I recall well, I
>> had dots in my fields names.  You should investigate that and try to get
>> the simplest field names possible; short, no dots or other special
>> characters, etc.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Bastien
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Fwd: Re: Conversion of a
>>         SpatialPolygonsDataFrame into a ESRI file
>> Message-ID:<4F687F59.90104@cs.**helsinki.fi<4F687F59.90104@cs.helsinki.fi>
>> >
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>> Hi Cristina,
>>
>> Which version of ArcGIS are you using? The dbf-format is notorious for
>> mangling the field names longer than 10 characters. I can't imagine how
>> this might prevent the attribute table from showing, but you never know.
>>
>> In ArcGIS, you could just try exporting the shapefile into a new file
>> (shapefile or geodatabase feature layer) and see if the new file behaves
>> better.
>>
>> Joona
>>
>> On 03/20/2012 02:37 PM, Cristina Silva wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, I didn't reply for the list.
>>>
>>> Cristina
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject:      Re: [R-sig-Geo] Conversion of a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
>>> into
>>> a ESRI file
>>> Date:         Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:15:46 +0000
>>> From:         Cristina Silva<csilva@ipimar.pt>
>>> To:   P?nar Aslantas Bostan<aslantas@metu.edu.tr>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Pinar,
>>>
>>> The problem is not to get the data, this can be done directly with
>>> write.csv or write.table. I was looking for a package/function to
>>> export the whole spatial object to a ESRI shapefile with all the files
>>> needed (.shp, .shx, .prj and .dbf). With writeOGR I can do this but
>>> the resulting .dbf file is not read properly, although the data are
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Thanks anyway.
>>>
>>> Cristina
>>>
>>> On 20/03/2012 11:36, P?nar Aslantas Bostan wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Dear Cristina,
>>>>
>>>>   For this purpose I use "write.table" function.
>>>>
>>>>   my code is this;
>>>>
>>>>   write.table(dem, file="D:\\Data\\dem_outputs.**txt", quote = TRUE,
>>>> dec = ".",
>>>>   qmethod = c("escape", "double"))
>>>>
>>>>   # "dem" is SpatialPixelsDataFrame in my study.
>>>>
>>>>   then you can add your data as txt file in ArcGis.
>>>>
>>>>   I hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>>   Best wishes,
>>>>   Pinar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   -----Original Message-----
>>>>   From: r-sig-geo-bounces@r-project.**org<r-sig-geo-bounces@r-project.org>
>>>>   [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces@r-**project.org<r-sig-geo-bounces@r-project.org>]
>>>> On Behalf Of Cristina Silva
>>>>   Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:11 PM
>>>>   To: r-sig-geo@r-project.org
>>>>   Subject: [R-sig-Geo] Conversion of a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame into a
>>>> ESRI
>>>>   file
>>>>
>>>>   Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>   I need to export a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame to a shapefile to  be
>>>> read by
>>>>   ArcGIS. I have used several packages and functions to do this with
>>>> different
>>>>   results.
>>>>
>>>>   1) with maptools, function writePolyShape: The file .prj is not
>>>> created
>>>>
>>>>   2) with spsurvey, function sp2shape: Doesn't work, gives the following
>>>>   message "Error: Opening .prj file in C function
>>>> writeShapeFilePolygon"
>>>>
>>>>   3) with rgdal, function writeOGR:
>>>>
>>>>      * with data projected (transforming longlat into utm) or not
>>>> (longlat:
>>>>        the file is read by ArcGIS. However, when I try to open the
>>>>        Attributes table, it gives the message that could not load the
>>>> data
>>>>        from the data source, suggests to refresh (which is not possible)
>>>>        and opens an empty table, although having the number of columns
>>>> and
>>>>        lines of the data. Looking for the info of each polygon in the
>>>> map,
>>>>        the data are displayed for each individual record. So, the data
>>>>        exist but are not acessible from the Attributes Table.
>>>>      * To display the Attributes Table, I had to convert the .dbf file
>>>> in
>>>>        .csv and export again as a .dbf.
>>>>
>>>>   Is there any better way to make this conversion?
>>>>
>>>>   Cristina
>>>>
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>>>>   Cristina Silva
>>>>   INRB/L-IPIMAR
>>>>   Unidade de Recursos Marinhos e Sustentabilidade Av. de Brasmlia,
>>>> 1449-006
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