Re: [R] read ESRI file geodatabase feature classes

2010-12-13 Thread Michael Sumner
A recent announcement as a follow up to this: http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/geodatabase/archive/2010/12/13/File-Geodatabase-API-details.aspx Still requires ESRI software, but will allow some other projects to read the format if ArcRequired is available. Cheers, Mike. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:

Re: [R] read ESRI file geodatabase feature classes

2010-12-06 Thread Michael Sumner
No there is no open software to read ESRI "file geodatabases" (the .gdb ones). If it's not .gdb but .mdb ("personal geodatabase", built on Microsoft Access database) then you can read it with generic tools (such as RODBC package) or with an appropriate build of GDAL as part of the rgdal package.

[R] read ESRI file geodatabase feature classes

2010-12-06 Thread Al Kirschbaum
Hello- Does anyone know if R can read in ESRI file geodatabase feature classes, directly from the file geodatabase? I currently have to export the data out of Arc, to a csv file, then read the csv file. I'd like to bypass this step and read directly from the file geodatabase. Thanks for your help