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Reputation: 1

Error in ogrInfo() Cannot open data source/Cannot open layer

I am trying to read in a .shp file with readOGR() but I keep getting one of two errors

When I use this code:

county.map <- readOGR(paste0("C:/Users/name/Documents/HospMarket/geog/cb_2017_us_county_5m.shp"),layer = "cb_2017_us_county_5m",verbose = FALSE)

I get this error:

Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv = use_iconv, : Cannot open data source

One fix I read about led me to write this instead:

county.map <- readOGR(paste0("C:/Users/name/Documents/HospMarket/geog"),layer = "cb_2017_us_county_5m",verbose = FALSE)

Here I get this error code:

Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv = use_iconv, : Cannot open layer

I am really at a loss of what else to do, I am 99.99% sure that everything is spelled correctly, what else could this mean? I am relatively new to R so I am still learning. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 773

Answers (1)

UseR10085
UseR10085

Reputation: 8136

You can use the following code

library(rgdal)

county.map <- readOGR(dsn = "C:/Users/name/Documents/HospMarket/geog", #Provide the directory of shp file
                      layer = "cb_2017_us_county_5m", #Provide the name of the shp file without extension (.shp)
                      verbose = FALSE)

Upvotes: 0

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