Are the output files already there?
In that case, try overwrite_layer=TRUE
-Don
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On 8/17/12 9:28 AM, "Scott Duke-Sylvester" <scottdukesylvester at
gmail.com>
wrote:
>I have a quick question: It appears that in rgdal v0.7-12 (R version
>2.15.1, OSX 10.6.8) writeOGR will not write a shapefile the the
>current directory. Is this correct? An earlier version of rgdal must
>have allowed this because I have a older script that used to work, but
>doesn't now.
>
>So, as an example, here is what I get today:
>
>> shape = readOGR('.', layer='S20_G75_V00_HAASHP10_R00')
>OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile
>Source: ".", layer: "S20_G75_V00_HAASHP10_R00"
>with 169 features and 23 fields
>Feature type: wkbPolygon with 2 dimensions
>
>> writeOGR(shape, '.', layer='temp', driver='ESRI
Shapefile',
>>verbose=TRUE)
>Error in writeOGR(shape, ".", layer = "temp", driver =
"ESRI Shapefile") :
> Creation of output file failed
>
>> writeOGR(shape, '/tmp', layer='temp', driver='ESRI
>>Shapefile',verbose=TRUE)
>$object_type
>[1] "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"
>
>$output_dsn
>[1] "/tmp"
>
>$output_layer
>[1] "temp"
>
>$output_diver
>[1] "ESRI Shapefile"
>
>$output_n
>[1] 169
>
>$output_nfields
>[1] 23
>
>$output_fields
> [1] "ID" "ANID" "F_AREA"
"Avg_z" "Manning"
> [6] "IniWL" "IniSal" "DispCoeff"
"HydRad" "veg1_DW"
>[11] "veg2_IW" "veg3_SW" "veg4_DC"
"veg5_IC" "veg6_SC"
>[16] "veg7_Marsh" "veg8_Swamp" "Rain_StID"
"Wetland" "Openwater"
>[21] "iniBed_m" "maxH_m" "BoxID"
>
>$output_fclasses
> [1] 0 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 4
>
>$dataset_options
>NULL
>
>$layer_options
>NULL
>
>
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