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...cle.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.geo/13571 (link to gmane because it crosses a month boundary). You did join that thread, and said there that you are using OSX. You were able to open Pgeo files, I think. Are you thinking of the new file geodatabase format? If you read: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html you will see that you must build GDAL linking to the proprietary FileGDB API SDK, which requires an ESRI global account. Reading the OGR format file would tell you that, no? Roger > > I am very interested in this issue since I am a regular user of ArcGIS > (teaching) and R (re...