This can work with a combination of vsizip (or other) and vsicurl, but the multiple files will have to be in an archive (zip or other).
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs/ReadInZip See examples near the bottom of the page for OGR. Keep the zip file name the same as the shapefile/layer name and don't have subdirectories for the simplest case. I am pretty sure this cannot work otherwise for a multifile format. Cheers, Mike On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, Jeff Hollister wrote: > All, > > I have a couple of shapefiles that I would like to read in directly from a > website (actually a local server that is shared). I have been unable to > figure out how to get this to work. > > I have of course tried the obvious, shpf<-readOGR(dsn=" > http://111.11.11.1/data","layername";), to no avail. > > Any hints would be greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > *************************** > Dr. Jeffrey W. Hollister > Research Ecologist > US EPA > Atlantic Ecology Division > 27 Tarzwell Drive > Narragansett, RI 02882 > (401) 782-9655 > *************************** > -- Michael Sumner Hobart, Australia e-mail: [email protected] [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
