On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Adams <tea3rd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Spencer,
>
> Maybe I'm not sure what you're asking but here
> http://www.gadm.org/version1
> are current shapefiles by country. The highlighting (selection) canals  be
> done in GRASS GIS, QGIS, GMT
>
>

 raster::getData can read this. See here http://www.gadm.org/ and

library(raster)
?getData






> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Spencer Graves <
> spencer.graves@prodsyse.com>
> wrote:
>
> >       What would you suggest I do to create a world map highlighting
> > Taiwan and post-Soviet states like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
> > Turkmenistan, and Croatia?
> >
> >
> >       The region argument in maps::map won't recognize any of these, and
> > my literature search identified hundreds of packages with some spatial /
> > geographical / mapping content.
> >
> >
> >       Thanks,
> >       Spencer Graves
> >
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