I've switched largely to PostGIS. Its not that hard to dump back and forth.
I often do 'copy (select ...) to stdout' | my-c++-code... and so on.

THK


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn@illinois.edu>wrote:

> r-sig-geo'ers:
>
> As vector datasets are getting a lot larger, there is a limitation
> with the Spatial* formats in that they must be loaded into main
> memory.  I was curious what folks who have been dealing with massive
> vector files have come up with working within the R environment?  Has
> anyone played around with file geodatabases or spatialite formats (for
> instance)?  How are you creating/querying the data?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --j
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