Not sure if it will work straight with .mid or .mif files, but it works
for me on .tab files, which were
supposed to be read with the Excel map tool package and beleive confro
to the MapInfo format.
I asked Roger Bivand at the recent useR!2004 meeting and he made several
suggestions. Following the
leads he gave me, I found a small program (ogr2ogr) which translates my
.tab files into .shp files,
which I can then read into R. The MapInfo format is explicitly supported.
I use Debian Linux (sarge), and ogr2ogr is part of the package
gdal-bin. A batch
file like
for i in *.tab ; do
ogr2ogr ${i%.*}.shp $i ;
done
converted a bunch of files in a snap. Hope it may be of help to you.
ft.
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