| countryref {CoordinateCleaner} | R Documentation |
Country Centroids and Country Capitals
Description
A data.frame with coordinates of country and province centroids and
country capitals as reference for the clean_coordinates,
cc_cen and cc_cap functions. Coordinates are
based on the Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/,
https://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php and geolocate
https://geo-locate.org.
Format
A data frame with 5,305 observations on 13 variables. #'
- iso3
ISO-3 code for each country, in case of provinces also referring to the country.
- iso2
ISO-2 code for each country, in case of provinces also referring to the country.
- adm1_code
adm code for countries and provinces.
- name
a factor; name of the country or province.
- type
identifying if the entry refers to a country or province level.
- centroid.lon
Longitude of the country centroid.
- centroid.lat
Latitude of the country centroid.
- capital
Name of the country capital, empty for provinces.
- capital.lon
Longitude of the country capital.
- capital.lat
Latitude of the country capital.
- area_sqkm
The area of the country or province.
- uncertaintyRadiusMeters
The uncertainty of the country centroid.
- source
The data source. Currently only available for https://geo-locate.org
Source
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (2014) The World Factbook, Washington, DC.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/ https://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php https://geo-locate.org
Examples
data(countryref)
head(countryref)