R help - Jan 2008 - maptools no such file

Hello,

I'm having problems reading a shapefile with read.shape (maptools). I'm
absolutely sure my file is there, but I get "no such file". The wd is
ok, since read.table for example does find the file.
> getwd()
[1] "D:/somedirectory/R scripts"
> read.table("cities.shp")
Error in read.table("cities.shp") : empty beginning of file
In addition: Warning message:
In read.table("cities.shp") :
  incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on
'cities.shp'
> read.shape("cities.shp")
Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : No such file

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Pieter

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can you open your shapefile using reaPolyShape in sp?

pieterprovoost at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having problems reading a shapefile with read.shape (maptools).
I'm absolutely sure my file is there, but I get "no such file".
The wd is ok, since read.table for example does find the file.
>
>   
>> getwd()
>>     
> [1] "D:/somedirectory/R scripts"
>   
>> read.table("cities.shp")
>>     
> Error in read.table("cities.shp") : empty beginning of file
> In addition: Warning message:
> In read.table("cities.shp") :
>   incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'cities.shp'
>   
>> read.shape("cities.shp")
>>     
> Error in getinfo.shape(filen) : No such file
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> Pieter
>
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No, I get the same error message there...

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