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

I had the same error. To read in a shapefile, you need to have three files in your folder: the .shp, .dbf and .shx files.