On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile > Source: > "/media/TRANSCEND/MONTSENY2008/MONTSENY_GEODATA/FloraExotica2009/AilantMSY09/", > layer: "AilantMSY09" > with 62 features and 29 fields > Error in make.names(fldnms, unique = TRUE) : invalid multibyte string 9 The error message seems to come from the part of the code that converts the DBF column names to valid R column names... > (Using R version 2.11.0, rgdal 0.6-26 and GDAL 1.6.3) > > Any guide on how to debug this problem? I've looked at the dbf file and > do not see anything weird. Ah, but one man's weird is another man's accented character! Do the column names of the DBF have anything that someone on my side of the English Channel would think of as 'weird'? :) How does read.dbf in the foreign package handle the DBF part of the shapefile? Barry _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
