Possible duplicate with [How to open a Shapefile in R?][1]

There are many packages to read shapefiles:

- [rgdal][2] with [readOGR][3] (examples) and [Read and write ESRI Shapefiles with R][4], pointed out by Joseph 
- [maptools][5] with [ReadShapePoint][6], [readShapeLines][7],[readShapePoly][8] and [readShapeSpatial][9] as Tumbledown show ( and [Read and write ESRI Shapefiles with R][10])
- [PBSmapping][11] with [importShapefile][12] (examples) and [Read and write ESRI Shapefiles with R][13], pointed out by Joseph
- [shapefiles][14]  with [readshapefile][15] (examples)
- [raster][16] with [shapefile][17] (examples)
- [dismo][18] with [shapefile][19] (examples)
- [fastshp][20]`with [read.shp][21] (examples)
- [RSAGA][22] 
- ...


  [1]: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/19064/how-to-open-a-shapefile-in-r
  [2]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/rgdal.pdf
  [3]: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/gdalUtils/versions/2.0.1.7/topics/ogrinfo
  [4]: https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/usecases/ReadWriteESRIShapeFiles
  [5]: http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/maptools
  [6]: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/maptools/versions/0.8-39/topics/readShapePoints
  [7]: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/maptools/versions/0.8-39/topics/readShapeLines
  [8]: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/maptools/versions/0.8-39/topics/readShapePoly
  [9]: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/maptools/versions/0.8-39/topics/readShapeSpatial
  [10]: https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/usecases/ReadWriteESRIShapeFiles
  [11]: http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/pbsmapping
  [12]: http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/pbsmapping/docs/importShapefile
  [13]: https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/usecases/ReadWriteESRIShapeFiles
  [14]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/shapefiles/shapefiles.pdf
  [15]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/shapefiles/shapefiles.pdf
  [16]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/raster.pdf
  [17]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/raster.pdf
  [18]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dismo/dismo.pdf
  [19]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dismo/dismo.pdf
  [20]: http://www.rforge.net/fastshp/index.html
  [21]: http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/fastshp/html/00Index.htm
  [22]: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSAGA/RSAGA.pdf