ne_coastline {rnaturalearth}

Get natural earth world coastline

Description

returns world coastline at specified scale

Usage

ne_coastline(scale = 110, returnclass = c("sf", "sv"))

Arguments

scale

The scale of map to return, one of '110', '50', '10' or 'small', 'medium', 'large'.

returnclass

A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from 'sf', the default) or "sv" for a 'SpatVector' (from 'terra').

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if 'load = FALSE'.

Value

An object of class 'sf' for simple feature (from 'sf', the default) or 'SpatVector' (from 'terra').

See Also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.

Examples

if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthdata")) {
  coast <- ne_coastline()
  plot(coast)
}