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gadm

Administrative boundaries

Get administrative boundaries for any country in the world. Data are read from files that are downloaded if necessary.

gadm(country, level=1, path, version=3.6)
world(resolution=5, level=0, path, version=3.6)

`country`	character. Three-letter ISO code or full country name
`level`	numeric. level of administrative subdivision (starting with 0 for country, then 1 for the first level of subdivision). For `world` only level 0 is currently avaialable
`path`	character. Path name indicating where to store the data
`version`	numeric. GADM version number (only 3.6 or higer)
`resolution`	integer between 1 and 5 indicating the level of detail. 1 is high 5 is low

These data are from https://gadm.org

SpatVector

fra <- gadm(country='FRA', level=1, path=tempdir())
w <- world(path=tempdir())

Download Geographic Data

v0.2-3

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Robert J. Hijmans [cre, aut], Aniruddha Ghosh [ctb], Alex Mandel [ctb]

Initial release

2021-05-26