readOGR not reading in prj file?

On Apr 6, 2016 10:27 AM, "Edzer Pebesma" <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de>
wrote:
What are the contents of the 2013Spring_Flood_Drawn.prj file?

Here's the content of the prj file:
PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",0.0],PARAMETER["Auxiliary_Sphere_Type",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

Thanks so much for your help.
On Apr 6, 2016 10:27 AM, "Edzer Pebesma" <edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de
<mailto:edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de>> wrote:
What are the contents of the 2013Spring_Flood_Drawn.prj file?

Here's the content of the prj file:
PROJCS["WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere",GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",DATUM["D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION["Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere"],PARAMETER["False_Easting",0.0],PARAMETER["False_Northing",0.0],PARAMETER["Central_Meridian",0.0],PARAMETER["Standard_Parallel_1",0.0],PARAMETER["Auxiliary_Sphere_Type",0.0],UNIT["Meter",1.0]]

Thanks so much for your help.

When I replace the .prj file of an arbitrary shapefile with these
contents, it gets read well. Have you tried with current R (3.2.4) and
rgdal (1.1.7)?
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On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Edzer Pebesma
When I replace the .prj file of an arbitrary shapefile with these
contents, it gets read well. Have you tried with current R (3.2.4) and
rgdal (1.1.7)?
Thanks Edzer, upgrading rgdal to 1.1.8 works.  Consider this issue close.

-- Vinh

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Edzer Pebesma
<edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
When I replace the .prj file of an arbitrary shapefile with these
contents, it gets read well. Have you tried with current R (3.2.4) and
rgdal (1.1.7)?

Thanks Edzer, upgrading rgdal to 1.1.8 works.  Consider this issue close.
For completeness, which OS was this, and how was GDAL installed - do you 
recall what GDAL version was reported when rgdal loaded?

If Windows CRAN binary, it is possible that the underlying GDAL version of 
the spatial reference code and EPSG databases changed - there were no 
relevant changes in rgdal itself, I think.

Roger
-- Vinh

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On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Vinh Nguyen wrote:

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Edzer Pebesma
<edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de> wrote:
When I replace the .prj file of an arbitrary shapefile with these
contents, it gets read well. Have you tried with current R (3.2.4) and
rgdal (1.1.7)?

Thanks Edzer, upgrading rgdal to 1.1.8 works.  Consider this issue close.

For completeness, which OS was this, and how was GDAL installed - do you
recall what GDAL version was reported when rgdal loaded?
If Windows CRAN binary, it is possible that the underlying GDAL version
of the spatial reference code and EPSG databases changed - there were no
relevant changes in rgdal itself, I think.

Windows. I don't have the log with gdal version. Your assessment is
probably correct. Thanks.