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Directly load and save zipped shapefiles in {sf}
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| library("sf") | |
| file = system.file("shape/nc.shp", package = "sf") | |
| shp = read_sf(file) | |
| ## write zipped shapefile | |
| write_sf(shp, "myshapefile.shp.zip", driver = "ESRI Shapefile") | |
| ## read zipped shapefile | |
| read_sf("myshapefile.shp.zip") | |
| ## read zipped shapefile using `vsizip` | |
| ## see: https://gdal.org/user/virtual_file_systems.html | |
| f = paste0("/vsizip/", "myshapefile.shp.zip") | |
| read_sf(f) |
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