[R] RGDAL OGRwrite question

[Scott Duke-Sylvester]

I have a quick question: It appears that in rgdal v0.7-12 (R version
2.15.1, OSX 10.6.8) writeOGR will not write a shapefile the the
current directory. Is this correct? An earlier version of rgdal must
have allowed this because I have a older script that used to work, but
doesn't now.

So, as an example, here is what I get today:

> shape = readOGR('.', layer='S20_G75_V00_HAASHP10_R00')
OGR data source with driver: ESRI Shapefile
Source: ".", layer: "S20_G75_V00_HAASHP10_R00"
with 169 features and 23 fields
Feature type: wkbPolygon with 2 dimensions

> writeOGR(shape, '.', layer='temp', driver='ESRI Shapefile', verbose=TRUE)
Error in writeOGR(shape, ".", layer = "temp", driver = "ESRI Shapefile") :
  Creation of output file failed

> writeOGR(shape, '/tmp', layer='temp', driver='ESRI Shapefile',verbose=TRUE)
$object_type
[1] "SpatialPolygonsDataFrame"

$output_dsn
[1] "/tmp"

$output_layer
[1] "temp"

$output_diver
[1] "ESRI Shapefile"

$output_n
[1] 169

$output_nfields
[1] 23

$output_fields
 [1] "ID"         "ANID"       "F_AREA"     "Avg_z"      "Manning"
 [6] "IniWL"      "IniSal"     "DispCoeff"  "HydRad"     "veg1_DW"
[11] "veg2_IW"    "veg3_SW"    "veg4_DC"    "veg5_IC"    "veg6_SC"
[16] "veg7_Marsh" "veg8_Swamp" "Rain_StID"  "Wetland"    "Openwater"
[21] "iniBed_m"   "maxH_m"     "BoxID"

$output_fclasses
 [1] 0 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 2 4

$dataset_options
NULL

$layer_options
NULL


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