Hi, my understanding is that the second argument correspond to the kml layer name, which is not necessarily the file name. However it is in my case, I suppose (think).
>From opening my file with a text editor I get: <Document><name>Sarikamis.kml</name> The two arguments should correspond to the arguments: dsn= data source name layer= layer name Gabriele On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Frede Aakmann Tøgersen <fr...@vestas.com>wrote: > Hi > > I'm not close to my R right now. Can you explain to me what you think your > second argument to readORG does? > > Br. Frede > > > Sendt fra Samsung mobil > > > -------- Oprindelig meddelelse -------- > Fra: Gabriele Cozzi > Dato:16/04/2014 19.11 (GMT+01:00) > Til: r-sig-geo > Emne: [R-sig-Geo] import iml with readOGR > > Dear all, > > I am trying to import a kml (polygon) into R following the suggestions > from: > > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/58131/how-to-efficiently-read-a-kml-file-into-r > > and > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2010-May/008355.html > > > the code I run is the following: > > S <- readOGR(â~/Documents/Sarikamis.kml", "Sarikamisâ) > and I also tried: > S <- readOGR(â~/Documents/Sarikamis.kml", âSarikamis.kmlâ) > > but I get the usual error: > Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv = > use_iconv) : > Cannot open file > > > When I open the kml file using a text editor it reads as below (in blue), > which makes me think that the kml file name is âSarikamisâ and the string > is âDocument/Sarikamis.kmlâ. But obviously I am doing something wrong, but > I canât understand what. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"; xmlns:gx=" > http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2"; xmlns:kml=" > http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2"; > xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";> > <Document> > <name>Sarikamis.kml</name> > <StyleMap id="msn_ylw-pushpin"> > <Pair> > <key>normal</key> > <styleUrl>#sn_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl> > </Pair> > <Pair> > <key>highlight</key> > <styleUrl>#sh_ylw-pushpin</styleUrl> > ...... > ...... > > > Any advice is highly appreciated! > > I am running R 3.0.3 for Mac > > > Best, > Gabriele > > > -- > Gabriele Cozzi > Postdoctoral Research Associate > Population Ecology Research Group > http://www.popecol.org > > Zurich University > Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies > Winterthurerstr. 190 > 8057 Zurich - Switzerland > E-mail: gabriele.co...@uzh.ch > Phone: +41(0)44 635 49 12 > Fax: +41(0)16355711 > http://www.ieu.uzh.ch > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > -- Gabriele Cozzi Postdoctoral Research Associate Population Ecology Research Group http://www.popecol.org Zurich University Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies Winterthurerstr. 190 8057 Zurich - Switzerland E-mail: gabriele.co...@uzh.ch Phone: +41(0)44 635 49 12 Fax: +41(0)16355711 http://www.ieu.uzh.ch [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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