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Use R with the foreign package to modify the DBF file
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| library(foreign) | |
| dbfdata <- read.dbf("file.dbf", as.is = TRUE) | |
| ## add new attribute data (just the numbers 1 to the number of objects) | |
| dbfdata$new.att <- 1:nrow(shp) | |
| ## overwrite the file with this new copy | |
| write.dbf(dbfdata, "file.dbf") |
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