R: Get shapefile header information

getinfo.shape {maptools} | R Documentation

## 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)

[Package maptools version 0.9-3 Index]