And for anyone looking for arguments: http://switchfromshapefile.org/
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 18:20 Edzer Pebesma <edzer.pebe...@uni-muenster.de> wrote: > > > On 6/20/20 12:28 PM, Lom Navanyo wrote: > > Unknown field name `Act_Depthtwtr': updating a layer with improper field > > name(s)? > > Shapefiles have funny restrictions as to the length and form of variable > names, you probably ran into that, as the message suggests. > > A general advice is to not use shapefiles for writing; there are better > alternatives, geopackage comes to mind. Shapefiles make life unnecessary > complicated, you've now run into two of the many problems they have. The > days of creating shapefiles are over. If someone asks you to create > shapfiles, explain them it is a bad idea. > -- > Edzer Pebesma > Institute for Geoinformatics > Heisenbergstrasse 2, 48149 Muenster, Germany > Phone: +49 251 8333081 > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo