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read_country

Download spatial data of Brazil's national borders


Description

Data at scale 1:250,000, using Geodetic reference system "SIRGAS2000" and CRS(4674).

Usage

read_country(year = 2010, simplified = TRUE, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

year

Year of the data. Defaults to 2010

simplified

Logic FALSE or TRUE, indicating whether the function returns the data set with original' resolution or a data set with 'simplified' borders. Defaults to TRUE. For spatial analysis and statistics users should set simplified = FALSE. Borders have been simplified by removing vertices of borders using sf::st_simplify() preserving topology with a dTolerance of 100.

showProgress

Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress bar

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

See Also

Examples

## Not run:  if (interactive()) {
# Read specific year
br <- read_country(year = 2018)
}
## End(Not run)

geobr

Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

v1.6.1
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Rafael H. M. Pereira [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2125-7465>), Caio Nogueira Goncalves [aut], Paulo Henrique Fernandes de Araujo [ctb], Guilherme Duarte Carvalho [ctb], Rodrigo Almeida de Arruda [ctb], Igor Nascimento [ctb], Barbara Santiago Pedreira da Costa [ctb], Welligtton Silva Cavedo [ctb], Pedro R. Andrade [ctb], Alan da Silva [ctb], Carlos Kauê Vieira Braga [ctb], Carl Schmertmann [ctb], Alessandro Samuel-Rosa [ctb], Daniel Ferreira [ctb], Ipea - Institue for Applied Economic Research [cph, fnd]
Initial release
2021-04-15

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