SimpleCountries {MazamaSpatialUtils} | R Documentation |
Simplified spatial dataset of country boundaries.
Description
SimpleCountries is a simplified world borders dataset suitable
for global maps and quick spatial searches. This dataset is distributed with
the package and is can be used with getCountry()
,
getCountryCode()
and getCountryName()
when restricting searches
to land-based locations.
Usage
SimpleCountries
Format
A simple features data frame with 246 records and 7 columns of data.
Details
This dataset is equivalent to TMWorldBordersSimple but with fewer columns of data.
See Also
convertTMWorldBordersSimple
This dataset was generated on 2022-11-04 by running:
library(MazamaSpatialUtils) setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial_0.8") convertTMWorldBorders() loadSpatialData("NaturalEarthAdm0_05") columnNames <- c("countryCode", "countryName", "ISO3", "FIPS", "UN_region", "polygonID") SimpleCountries <- NaturalEarthAdm0_05[, columnNames] save(SimpleCountries, file = "data/SimpleCountries.rda")
[Package MazamaSpatialUtils version 0.8.6 Index]