topic defining field types with R arcgisbinding in ArcGIS Hub Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-hub-questions/defining-field-types-with-r-arcgisbinding/m-p/794693#M3914 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using arc.write() in the R arcgisbinding package to write an sf object to a feature class in a file geodatabase. How do I define the field types of the resulting feature class. For example, I have a field in R which is a character (text) field -&nbsp; "2018-11-10". When I write this file to a feature class, this field gets interpreted as a 'double' field but I want this field to be interpreted as a 'text' field.</P><P></P><P>fgdb_path &lt;- file.path("path")<BR />arc.write(file.path(fgdb_path, "layer), data=sf_object)</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:56:22 GMT Anonymous User 2018-10-08T16:56:22Z defining field types with R arcgisbinding https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-hub-questions/defining-field-types-with-r-arcgisbinding/m-p/794693#M3914 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am using arc.write() in the R arcgisbinding package to write an sf object to a feature class in a file geodatabase. How do I define the field types of the resulting feature class. For example, I have a field in R which is a character (text) field -&nbsp; "2018-11-10". When I write this file to a feature class, this field gets interpreted as a 'double' field but I want this field to be interpreted as a 'text' field.</P><P></P><P>fgdb_path &lt;- file.path("path")<BR />arc.write(file.path(fgdb_path, "layer), data=sf_object)</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:56:22 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-hub-questions/defining-field-types-with-r-arcgisbinding/m-p/794693#M3914 Anonymous User 2018-10-08T16:56:22Z