maptools (version 1.1-4)

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)
# S3 method for shapehead
print(x, ...)

Value

The function returns a list of class shapehead.

Arguments

filen

name of file with *.shp extension

x

a shapehead list as returned by getinfo.shape

...

other arguments passed to print

Author

Roger Bivand ; shapelib by Frank Warmerdam

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

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