[OSGeo-Discuss] Shapefile's dfb editing

[Allan Hollander]

My usual trick for dealing with dbf files is to import them into R and 
manipulate them there. The read.dbf and write.dbf functions in the R foreign 
library (see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.html) seem quite 
robust. R is a programming environment for statistical computing; it's 
probably overkill to start learning R just to manipulate your dbf files, but 
R is an incredibly useful and powerful system, which by the way has a lot of 
spatial analysis capabilities (see 
http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/web/views/Spatial.html), including links to 
GRASS.

-- Allan Hollander

On Friday 12 December 2008 08:11:48 Silvia Franceschi wrote:
> Hi all,
> do some of you know how to edit a shapefile's dbf file?
> I tried with OpenOffice Calc but I have the following error:
> "Connection to file could not be established"
> I have to add some attribute that I have in an other file and they are a
> lot of data.
>
> Thanks in advance for help
>
> Silvia
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