closes #2179

Author: edzer

R/read.R

@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ set_utf8 = function(x) {
 #' lead to spurious errors that accompanying \code{*.shp} are missing.
 #'
 #' In case of problems reading shapefiles from USB drives on OSX, please see
-#' \url{https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/252}.
+#' \url{https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/252}. Reading shapefiles (or other
+#' data sources) directly from zip files can be done by prepending the path 
+#' with \code{/vsizip/}, see also \url{https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/pull/1514}
 #'
 #' For \code{query} with a character \code{dsn} the query text is handed to
 #' 'ExecuteSQL' on the GDAL/OGR data set and will result in the creation of a