You seem to have a typo.
In the case that works your filename is "Mailles_2011a.dbf"
but in the case that fails your filename is "Mailles_2011a.shp"
(different extensions)
HTH,
Eric
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 8:00 PM Patrick Giraudoux <
patrick.giraud...@univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> Dear listers,
>
> I am using the package foreign function read.dbf and meet the following
> issue:
>
> i<-"Mailles_2011a.dbf"
>
> dbf<-read.dbf(i)
>
> works well BUT
>
> if I have a vector such as
>
> files <- c("Mailles_2011a.shp", "Mailles_2011p.shp",
> "Mailles_2012a.shp", "Mailles_2012p.shp", "Mailles_2013a.shp",
> "Mailles_2013p.shp", "Mailles_2014p.shp", "Mailles_2015a.shp",
> "Mailles_2015p.shp", "Mailles_2016p.shp")
>
> for(i in files) {
> dbf<-read.dbf(i)
> names(dbf)
> }
>
> gives the following error message:
>
> Error in read.dbf(i) : unable to open DBF file
>
> Same error with e.g.
>
> dbf<-read.dbf(files[1])
>
> Any idea about what's happening?
>
> Patrick
>
>
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