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

As I commented in other post (Error when opening shapefile), using file.choose() and selecting manually will help in the case one file selection is needed. Apparently is related with NaturalEarth shapefiles