writeOGR

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Frazier, Tyler James

Is it possible to set writeOGR so it overwrites existing files, or at least prompts?

i.e.

writeOGR(towns,".","towns",driver="ESRI Shapefile")

?writeOGR

overwrite_layer: default FALSE, if TRUE and ?check_exists=TRUE?, delete
          the existing layer of the same name from the data source
          before writing the new layer; this will delete data and must
          be used with extreme caution, its behaviour varies between
          drivers, and accommodates changes that may appear in GDAL 1.8

?

Barry