Write a sf or sp to a ESRI shapefile

Wrapper on sf::st_write for writing an sf or sp object to disk as an ESRI shapefile

write_shape(in_vect, out_file, overwrite = FALSE, verbose = FALSE,
  encoding = "UTF-8", create_dir = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

in_vect	character object to be written to the shapefile. Must be a valid *sp or sf object
out_file	character output file name
overwrite	logical if TRUE, output file will be overwritten if existing, Default: FALSE
verbose	logical if TRUE, provide messages on processing, Default: TRUE
encoding	character encoding to be used to write the DBF of the shapefile, Default: "UTF-8"
create_dir	logical, if TRUE and the folder of out_file does not exist, then the full folder tree up to out_file is created, Default: FALSE (use with caution !)
...	any other arguments to be passed to sf::st_write

Examples

# build a spatialpoints data frame
pts                <- cbind(1:5, 1:5)
dimnames(pts)[[1]] <- letters[1:5]
df                 <-  data.frame(a = 1:5)
row.names(df)      <- letters[5:1]
points             <- sp::SpatialPointsDataFrame(pts, df, match.ID = TRUE)

# Save it to a shape file
out_file  = tempfile(pattern = "test", tmpdir = tempdir(),
                         fileext = ".shp")
mysp_object = points
write_shape(mysp_object, out_file, overwrite = TRUE)

# read the saved shape
in_data <- read_vect(out_file)
in_data
#> Simple feature collection with 5 features and 1 field
#> geometry type:  POINT
#> dimension:      XY
#> bbox:           xmin: 1 ymin: 1 xmax: 5 ymax: 5
#> epsg (SRID):    NA
#> proj4string:    NA
#> # A tibble: 5 x 2
#>       a geometry
#>   <int>  <POINT>
#> 1     5    (1 1)
#> 2     4    (2 2)
#> 3     3    (3 3)
#> 4     2    (4 4)
#> 5     1    (5 5)