Hi everyone.
I'm trying to open some shapefiles, but the process is still not complete after 25 minutes.  Looking at the shapefiles in ArcGIS, I find that these files have roughly 500K entries. I was wondering if this processing time to open the shapefiles is normal. Here is my configuration:
Intel i5-2500 @ 3.3 GHz16 GB of RAMWindows 7 (64 bits)
For information, you can download the shapefiles here:
http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/srtm/rivers.zip
Here is my code:
library(rgdal)shape=readOGR("af_riv_15s.shp", layer="af_riv_15s") 

Thank you for your help,Phil



 		 	   		  
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