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I want to read a shapefile(polyline) into R, using rgdal and raster packages.
The code looks like:
d<-file("/Volumes/Environment_layers/original/WaterRoad/Road.shp")
o<-shapefile(d)
but I got a warning:
Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) :
unable to find an inherited method for function ‘shapefile’ for signature ‘"file"’
I am new in using R dealing with spatial layers.
You are doing this:
d <- file("/Volumes/Environment_layers/original/WaterRoad/Road.shp")
which is calling file on the path. This opens the file for reading by R's general reading and writing routines. The shapefile function handles all this so you don't pass it a file object, you pass it the path as a string.
This should work:
d <- "/Volumes/Environment_layers/original/WaterRoad/Road.shp"
o <- shapefile(d)
fileon the path and passed afileobject (hence the error). I suspect this might be a pythonic paradigm from someone used to python. Either way, its a specific error that other people might encounter and so is worth having as a question as my explanation details the solution.