Get shapefile header information; the file should be given including its ".shp" extension, and the function will reconstruct the names of the database (dbf) file and the index (shx) file from these.
Usage
getinfo.shape(filen)
"print"(x, ...)
Arguments
filen
name of file with *.shp extension
x
a shapehead list as returned by getinfo.shape
...
other arguments passed to print
Value
The function returns a list of class shapehead.
Details
The function calls code from shapelib to read shapefiles, a file format used by ESRI GIS software among others