Hi All,

I'm having some trouble accessing polygon data for all countries using the
getData function in raster (error message - repeated below).   Accessing
other data sets with this function does not throw an error.  I updated to R
3.1.0 and raster 2.2-31 but am still having the same problem.  Any ideas
what I should be doing differently?

Thanks for any help!
-Matt

> getData(name="countries")
class       : SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
features    : 265
extent      : -180, 180, -90, 83.62742  (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
coord. ref. : +proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
+towgs84=0,0,0
variables   : 18
Error in pmax(nchar(ln), nchar(minv), nchar(maxv)) :
  invalid multibyte string 2

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