Shapefile field names

Source: R/utils_spatial_misc.R

Quickly extract the field names in a shapefile.

shapefile_field_names(x, inherits = NULL)

Arguments

x

character path.
inherits

character class to return only column names that contain a certain type of data. Defaults to NULL such that all column names are returned.

Value

character vector of field names.

Examples

shapefile_field_names(system.file("shape/nc.shp", package = "sf"))
#>  [1] "AREA"      "PERIMETER" "CNTY_"     "CNTY_ID"   "NAME"      "FIPS"     
#>  [7] "FIPSNO"    "CRESS_ID"  "BIR74"     "SID74"     "NWBIR74"   "BIR79"    
#> [13] "SID79"     "NWBIR79"