Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-26 Thread Hisaji ONO
Hello. I think it's good idea for R to use SpatiaLite instead of dealing with shapefiles directly. SpatiaLite has functions of Raster GIS and routing, so these functions will enrich spatial analyses in R. It'll be better SQLite/SpatiaLite embedded within R as internal DB. I hope some day R

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-25 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Dan Putler wrote: The response I got from the gdal-dev list is that starting in GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 there is a read-only driver or SpatiaLite files, and that there is currently a working read and write driver for SpatiaLite in the GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 SVN. OSGEO4W currently has the def

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Putler
The response I got from the gdal-dev list is that starting in GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 there is a read-only driver or SpatiaLite files, and that there is currently a working read and write driver for SpatiaLite in the GDAL/OGR 1.7.0 SVN. OSGEO4W currently has the default install GDAL/OGR 1.5.4, but GDAL/OGR

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-24 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Dan Putler wrote: Hi Edzer, I've sent an email on this topic to the gdal-dev mailing list. I would argue that the "standard" build of GDAL/OGR on Windows is what Frank W. releases in FWTools, so I asked about whether the two drivers are included in the current Windows FWToo

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Edzer, I've sent an email on this topic to the gdal-dev mailing list. I would argue that the "standard" build of GDAL/OGR on Windows is what Frank W. releases in FWTools, so I asked about whether the two drivers are included in the current Windows FWTools build of the GDAL/OGR library. My guess

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Dan Putler wrote: > Hi Roger, > > A bit off-topic, but what do you think will be the real replacement for > the shapefile as the de facto standard vector file format? SpatialLite? > Some thoughts on that here: http://moreati.org.uk/blog/2009/03/01/shapefile-20-m

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Dan Putler wrote: Hi Roger, A bit off-topic, but what do you think will be the real replacement for the shapefile as the de facto standard vector file format? SpatialLite? Perhaps unfortunately, shapefiles will be around for a long time. The only alternatives in volume a

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Roger, A bit off-topic, but what do you think will be the real replacement for the shapefile as the de facto standard vector file format? SpatialLite? Dan On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:47 +0200, Roger Bivand wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mark Na wrote: > > > Hi Dan & Roger, > > Thanks for your co

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mark Na wrote: Hi Dan & Roger, Thanks for your comments. What do you know about ESRI's new "file geodatabase" file structure -- is it any more open (or integrable with R) than the personal geodatabase? The last slide on: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/pug07/papers/w

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Na
Hi Dan & Roger, Thanks for your comments. What do you know about ESRI's new "file geodatabase" file structure -- is it any more open (or integrable with R) than the personal geodatabase? Mark On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Roger Bivand wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mark Na wrote: > > Hello

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Roger Bivand
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, 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.

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Putler
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

[R-sig-Geo] Create ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) in R?

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Na
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 f