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loading the world borders data set
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| library(rgdal) | |
| #you only have to do this once! | |
| download.file("http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3.zip" , destfile="world_shape_file.zip") | |
| system("unzip world_shape_file.zip") | |
| #loading the world borders spatial polygons data frame | |
| world_spdf <- readOGR( | |
| dsn= getwd() , | |
| layer="TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.3", | |
| verbose=FALSE | |
| ) |
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