maptools (version 0.8-40)

getinfo.shape: Get shapefile header information

Description

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

References

http://shapelib.maptools.org/

Examples

Run this code
res <- getinfo.shape(system.file("shapes/fylk-val.shp", package="maptools")[1])
res
str(res)

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