Dear list, I am using writeOGR to create an ESRI shapefile from a SpatialPointsDataFrame. When opening the shapefile in ArcMap and ask for the attributes, I get an error "A column was specified that does not exist". Similarly, when opening the dbf of the shapefile in Paradox I get "Unable to open table. Corrupt table/index header". This does not only happen to my own Dataset but also the meuse data.
data(meuse) coordinates(meuse)=~x+y class(meuse) writeOGR(meuse,".","test",driver="ESRI Shapefile") # then try ArcMap or Paradox fails as mentioned above. #Strangely, when i do write.dbf(read.dbf("test.dbf"),file="test2") #then renaming test2 into test, my attribute tables open up fine, and Paradox stops complaining. any clues? Caspar. > sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=Dutch_Netherlands.1252 LC_CTYPE=Dutch_Netherlands.1252 LC_MONETARY=Dutch_Netherlands.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=Dutch_Netherlands.1252 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] pscl_1.03.3 coda_0.13-4 mvtnorm_0.9-9 automap_1.0-5 MASS_7.3-5 lme4_0.999375-32 Matrix_0.999375-33 maptools_0.7-29 [9] lattice_0.18-3 foreign_0.8-39 raster_0.9.9-24 rgdal_0.6-24 gstat_0.9-66 sp_0.9-57 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1 _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo