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...end of the email. I often download some maps (in the R format) from http://www.gadm.org/ However, when I run (typically more than once) a variation of the script below (based on http://bit.ly/1b3W0Aa ), I often get Error in load(url(paste("http://gadm.org/data/rda/", fileName, "_adm", : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In load(url(paste("http://gadm.org/data/rda/", fileName, "_adm", : cannot open: HTTP status was '504 Gateway Time-out' Does anybody know if gadm blocks repeated attempts to retrieve the same da...

...st have to specify the countries "special part" of the file name, like "ARG" for Argentina. Optionally you can specify which level you want to have loadGADM <- function (fileName, level = 0, ...) { load(url(paste("http://gadm.org/data/rda/", fileName, "_adm", level, ".RData", sep = ""))) gadm } ## the maps objects get a prefix (like "ARG_" for Argentina) changeGADMPrefix <- function (GADM, prefix) { GADM <- spChFIDs(GADM, paste(prefix, row.names(GADM), sep = "_")) GADM } ## load...