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Dear all, in GADM map there are three levels (nation, province and precinct) for each country of the world but for all of them you are never able to plot only one part of a chosen country. To be sure, I am trying to plot only one region of “Italy” and colour the different precincts in it. So far I am able to colour only the part of my interest but the programme still plot the whole country. Is

Dear All, Please consider the snippet at the 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

Hi there! I'm following an awesome guide to working with spatial data (http://www.frankdavenport.com/blog/2012/6/19/notes-from-a-recent-spatial-r-class-i-gave.html) and am running into an error that I can't figure out how to fix. Disclaimer: I am very much an R n00b Here is the r script I am running: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28231177/This%20Should%20Work.R data:

# ggplot2 ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce complex multi-layered graphics. Find out more at

# ggplot2 ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce complex multi-layered graphics. Find out more at