Re: [R-sig-Geo] Getting the Shapefile package to work?

ubject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Getting the Shapefile package to work? Replied to on R-help, but shapefiles has an undeclared dependence on foreign, which ought to have been made explicit properly in the package. Since read.dbf() in foreign is the shapelib function (and maptools and rgdal also use

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Getting the Shapefile package to work?

Replied to on R-help, but shapefiles has an undeclared dependence on foreign, which ought to have been made explicit properly in the package. Since read.dbf() in foreign is the shapelib function (and maptools and rgdal also use shapelib), this might suggest that using maptools or rgdal is a bett

[R-sig-Geo] Getting the Shapefile package to work?

Dear list - Propoerly a beginner question, so bare with my frustration... I tried install the 'shapefiles' package into R 2.4.0 but it seems that the install had little effect... > install.packages(c("shapefiles")) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in t