readOGR(): stringsAsFactors

ok,
After the correct installation of the new release with:
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:rgdal.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rgdal co -P rgdal
R CMD INSTALL rgdal 

I can confirm that the new argument works fine:

require(rgdal)

Loading required package: rgdal
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library extensions to R successfully loaded
Loaded GDAL runtime: GDAL 1.6.3, released 2009/11/19
Path to GDAL shared files: /usr/share/gdal16
Loaded PROJ.4 runtime: Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009
Path to PROJ.4 shared files: (autodetected)

packageDescription("rgdal")

Package: rgdal
Title: Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
Version: 0.6-27
Date: 2010-05-11
.../...

terNOXLC <-
readOGR(dsn="/media/TRANSCEND/MASTER_ICTA2007_2008/miniproj_GISInP2009/MARICEL2",
layer="terNOX0709buf2500values",stringsAsFactors=F)

OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile 
Source:
"/media/TRANSCEND/MASTER_ICTA2007_2008/miniproj_GISInP2009/MARICEL2", layer:
"terNOX0709buf2500values"
with 4100 features and 12 fields
Feature type: wkbPoint with 2 dimensions

class(terNOXLC at data[,1])

[1] "character"

terNOXLC <-
readOGR(dsn="/media/TRANSCEND/MASTER_ICTA2007_2008/miniproj_GISInP2009/MARICEL2",
layer="terNOX0709buf2500values",stringsAsFactors=T)

OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile 
Source:
"/media/TRANSCEND/MASTER_ICTA2007_2008/miniproj_GISInP2009/MARICEL2", layer:
"terNOX0709buf2500values"
with 4100 features and 12 fields
Feature type: wkbPoint with 2 dimensions

class(terNOXLC at data[,1])

[1] "factor"

terNOXLC <-
readOGR(dsn="/media/TRANSCEND/MASTER_ICTA2007_2008/miniproj_GISInP2009/MARICEL2",
layer="terNOX0709buf2500values")

OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile 
Source:
"/media/TRANSCEND/MASTER_ICTA2007_2008/miniproj_GISInP2009/MARICEL2", layer:
"terNOX0709buf2500values"
with 4100 features and 12 fields
Feature type: wkbPoint with 2 dimensions

class(terNOXLC at data[,1])

[1] "factor"


Many thanks! When do you think that this new improvement will make it into
CRAN?
Agus

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