On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Ben Madin wrote:
G'day all,
I am having a problem with using the rgdal function readOGR, but the error
message actually relates to using ogrInfo.
backgroundmap <- readOGR("PG:dbname=gms user=benmadin password=xdi4frt",
"seaplus_countries")
Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, input_field_name_encoding =
input_field_name_encoding) :
GDAL Error 1: No field definitions found for 'seaplus_countries', is it
a table?
ogrInfo("PG:dbname=gms user=benmadin password= xdi4frt", "seaplus_countries",
input_field_name_encoding=UTF-8)
Error in ogrInfo("PG:dbname=gms user=benmadin password= xdi4frt",
"seaplus_countries", :
GDAL Error 1: No field definitions found for 'seaplus_countries', is it
a table?
Yet when I use ogrInfo from the command line it shows me the information :
warrambat:~ benmadin$ ogrinfo "PG:dbname=gms user=benmadin password= xdi4frt"
INFO: Open of `PG:dbname=gms user=benmadin password= xdi4frt'
using driver `PostgreSQL' successful.
rows deleted
20: public.country (Multi Polygon)
21: public.seaplus_countries (Multi Polygon)
22: public.worldboundaries (Multi Polygon)
and I can load the layer and display it in QGIS or uDig.
The problem occurs both in the GUI and the command line versions of R.
sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 Patched (2010-09-30 r53084)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
locale:
[1] en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8/C/C/en_AU.UTF-8/en_AU.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] rgdal_0.6-28 sp_0.9-72
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.11.1 lattice_0.19-13
I have tried this with a number of postgis tables in different databases, and
it is not working. I am trying to re-run code that has previously worked fine,
but I am on a new computer and using R2.11 and a more recent version of rgdal.
My first question is - what does the error message mean?
I don't run PostGIS, so cannot tell, nor OSX. Is the table named as given
(what does the "public." prefix mean)? Can you use ogrinfo to examine the
table itself rather than the list of tables? I assume that you know what
you are doing; PostGIS is not something I know about.
My second question - why is it occurring in R, but not (apparently) a
problem outside of R?
Most likely the OGR drivers in the GDAL shared object used by rgdal are
not the same as those used by ogrinfo, QGIS, etc., elsewhere. How did you
install rgdal - as a binary package (from where) or as a source package?
If the latter, do you have multiple GDAL shared objects on your system?
My third question - am I on the right list?
Yes.
Roger
cheers
Ben
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