readOGR() cannot open file

Question

wmap <- readOGR(dsn=\"~/R/funwithR/data/ne_110m_land\", layer=\"ne_110m_land\")

This code is not loading the shape file and error is generated a

Answer 1

You could have shown that you have the right path with:

list.files('~/R/funwithR/data/ne_110m_land', pattern='\\.shp$')
file.exists('~/R/funwithR/data/ne_110m_land/ne_110m_land.shp')

perhaps try:

readOGR(dsn=path.expand("~/R/funwithR/data/ne_110m_land"), layer="ne_110m_land")

or a simpler alternative that is wrapped around that:

library(raster)
s <- shapefile("~/R/funwithR/data/ne_110m_land/ne_110m_land.shp")