And that would be user error. I didn't know that I needed all of the files in order to plot a shape file. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://r-sig-geo.2731867.n2.nabble.com/readOGR-cannot-open-shp-file-tp7587228p7587231.html Sent from the R-sig-geo mailing list archive at Nabble.com.