I am having several problems in exporting my point shapefile from ArcGIS 10 to R. 

I tried to save the shapefile as a CSV, but R reads all in one row; somebody in another question answered to use GDAL: I don't know where to find GDAL and furthermore my R version does not have this package; I tried to save it as a .txt but it says "an error occurred exporting the table".. I am out of ideas, nothing seems to work. 

Can anybody give me a little help?