[R-sig-Geo] NewBie Question: Splitting shape file in two

[Hans-Jörg Bibiko]

> On 04 Nov 2016, at 12:33, SunilChoudhary <sunil.choudary at mapit.gov.in> wrote:
> 
> I found the shape file for India with States in
> 
> https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=cf9b387de48248a687aafdd4cdff1127
> 
> Unfortunately this is outdated  (Andra Pradesh is now divided in two 
> parts Telangana and Andra Pradesh)
> 
> Can someone
> 
> 1)  point me to a more recent shape file which contains this change
> 2) point me how to draw a seperation line (Possibly via QGIS) so we have 
> two states in place of 1

did you look at http://gadm.org ?

-Hans