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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 class 'shapehead'
print(x, ...)

Arguments

`filen`	name of file with *.shp extension
`x`	a shapehead list as returned by getinfo.shape
`...`	other arguments passed to print

Details

The function calls code from shapelib to read shapefiles, a file format used by ESRI GIS software among others

Value

The function returns a list of class shapehead.

Author(s)

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand@nhh.no; shapelib by Frank Warmerdam

References

http://shapelib.maptools.org/

Examples

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

maptools

Tools for Handling Spatial Objects

v1.1-1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Roger Bivand [cre, aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2392-6140>), Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Eric Archer [ctb], Adrian Baddeley [ctb], Nick Bearman [ctb], Hans-Jörg Bibiko [ctb], Steven Brey [ctb], Jonathan Callahan [ctb], German Carrillo [ctb], Stéphane Dray [ctb], David Forrest [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Patrick Giraudoux [ctb], Duncan Golicher [ctb], Virgilio Gómez Rubio [ctb], Patrick Hausmann [ctb], Karl Ove Hufthammer [ctb], Thomas Jagger [ctb], Kent Johnson [ctb], Matthew Lewis [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2244-4078>), Sebastian Luque [ctb], Don MacQueen [ctb], Andrew Niccolai [ctb], Edzer Pebesma [ctb], Oscar Perpiñán Lamigueiro [ctb], Ethan Plunkett [ctb], Ege Rubak [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-533X>), Tom Short [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb], Ben Stabler [ctb], Murray Stokely [ctb], Rolf Turner [ctb]

Initial release

2021-03-14