I got an error when using ms_simplify with a large shapefile saying the file is corrupted and cannot be written: "The source could be corrupt or not supported. See st_drivers() for a list of supported formats."
After some investigation (see details here) it turns out this is due to a default maximum size limit of 200MB for GeoJSON files. This can be changed with Sys.setenv(OGR_GEOJSON_MAX_OBJ_SIZE=900)
It could be worth adding a warning in ms_simplify when that errors is returned to indicate how to increase this limit.
(sorry Andy, I didn't see your request to open an issue before today, although you wrote it 5 months ago :/ )
I got an error when using ms_simplify with a large shapefile saying the file is corrupted and cannot be written: "The source could be corrupt or not supported. See
st_drivers()for a list of supported formats." After some investigation (see details here) it turns out this is due to a default maximum size limit of 200MB for GeoJSON files. This can be changed withSys.setenv(OGR_GEOJSON_MAX_OBJ_SIZE=900)It could be worth adding a warning in ms_simplify when that errors is returned to indicate how to increase this limit.
(sorry Andy, I didn't see your request to open an issue before today, although you wrote it 5 months ago :/ )