Read .shp files

Source: R/read-shp.R

Read .shp files

read_shp(file, col_spec = "?", encoding = NA, geometry_col = "geometry")

Arguments

file

A vector of filenames.
col_spec

A character vector of length one with one character for each column or one character to be used for all columns. The following characters are supported (designed to align with readr::cols()):

  • "?": Use DBF-specified field type

  • "-": Skip column

  • "c": Character

  • "i": Parse integer

  • "d": Parse double

  • "l": Parse as logical
encoding

Use NA to automatically guess encoding, "" to use system encoding, or a length-one character vector overriding the automatically detected encoding.
geometry_col

The column name in which

Value

A tibble::tibble() with geometry column created using shp_geometry().

Examples

read_shp(shp_example("mexico/cities.shp"))

#> # A tibble: 36 x 5
#>    NAME             CAPITAL STATE_NAME          POPULATION              geometry
#>    <chr>            <chr>   <chr>                    <dbl>           <shp:point>
#>  1 Monterrey        Y       Nuevo Leon             2015000 (-100.31709 25.67735)
#>  2 Mazatlan         N       Sinaloa                 199830 (-106.41607 23.20383)
#>  3 Guadalajara      Y       Jalisco                2325000 (-103.34380 20.67359)
#>  4 Tampico          N       Tamaulipas              435000 ( -97.84263 22.24323)
#>  5 Mexico City      C       Distrito Federal      14100000 ( -99.12757 19.42705)
#>  6 Puebla de Zarag… Y       Puebla                 1055000 ( -98.19295 19.04863)
#>  7 Veracruz         N       Veracruz-Llave          385000 ( -96.08524 19.00683)
#>  8 Oaxaca           Y       Oaxaca                  154223 ( -96.95135 16.90743)
#>  9 Merida           Y       Yucatan                 400142 ( -89.55286 20.82187)
#> 10 Mexicali         Y       Baja California No…     365000 (-115.29424 32.62020)
#> # … with 26 more rows