..The dismo package is awesome: with some short lines of code you can read & map species distribution data from GBIF (the global biodiversity information facility) easily:Read more »

A simple example for drawing an occurrence-map (polygons with species' points) with the R-packages maptools and sp using shapefiles.HERE is the example data.Read more »

Here's an example of how to easily produce real nice distribution maps from GBIF-data in R with package maps... Read more »