Hi Mark, The natural way to do something like this in R is using the RGDAL package to take advantage of the OGR library. At this time OGR has the ability to read .mdb personal geodatabase files, but not write them, and since R's functionality in this area is dependent on what the GDAL/OGR library can do, I don't think you can avoid the third step in your workflow. You could have R write out shapefile sets, which might be an improvement over your current workflow.
Dan On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:00 -0600, Mark Na wrote: > Hello, > I would like to write spatial data to an ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) > and I wonder if anyone has experience with this. > > My workflow, at present, is as follows: > > 1. Read spatial data into R (from a .csv file). > > 2. Manipulate the data in various ways. > > 3. Export the data from R as a .csv file, import that into ArcGIS, add XY, > save the data as a table in an existing personal geodatabase (.mdb). > > I would like to automate step 3 by creating the .mdb in R and saving various > dataframes as tables within the .mdb, so nothing has to be done in ArcGIS. > > I would appreciate any help you might be able to provide with this. > > Many thanks, Mark > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo -- Dan Putler Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
