st_read: Long character strings

[JonasGeschke]

Hi, sorry for not using the bug template, but I am actually not sure this is a bug or something else... anyway a response or some advice would be great:

I am using _stread() to load a shapefile. This has a kind of bigger attribute table associated with it, and in some columns the cells are cut off after 254 characters. Can the code be changed so the character strings are not cut? I guess a long(er) character string should not be a problem for R?

The issue is easily reproducable, just run:

devtools::install_github("GMBA-biodiversity/gmbaR")
gmbaR::gmba_read(extend = "standard")
gmba_inv()$CountryISO[2]

This cell is just an example: It results in "AFG, ALB, AND, ARE, ARM, AUT, AZE, BEL, BGD, BGR, BIH, BRN, BTN, CHE, CHN, CYP, CZE, DEU, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, GEO, GRC, HKG, HRV, HUN, IDN, IMN, IND, IRL, IRN, IRQ, ISR, ITA, JOR, JPN, KAZ, KGZ, KHM, KOR, LAO, LBN, LIE, LKA, MCO, MKD, MMR, MNE, MNG, MYS," – but should be "AFG, ALB, AND, ARE, ARM, AUT, AZE, BEL, BGD, BGR, BIH, BRN, BTN, CHE, CHN, CYP, CZE, DEU, ESP, FIN, FRA, GBR, GEO, GRC, HKG, HRV, HUN, IDN, IMN, IND, IRL, IRN, IRQ, ISR, ITA, JOR, JPN, KAZ, KGZ, KHM, KOR, LAO, LBN, LIE, LKA, MCO, MKD, MMR, MNE, MNG, MYS, NOR, NPL, OMN, PAK, PHL, PNG, POL, PRK, PRT, PSE, ROU, RUS, SAU, SMR, SRB, SVK, SVN, SWE, SYR, THA, TJK, TKM, TLS, TUR, TWN, UKR, UZB, VNM, XAD, XCA, XKO, XNC, YEM".

Thanks for any support!

[edzer]

See https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/shapefile.html#field-sizes - and tell the GMBA people to stop using shapefiles, and use e.g. GPKG (geopackage) as an alternative.

[JonasGeschke]

As written before: Many thanks for the support!