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get_data

Get data from within the package

returns world country polygons at a specified scale, used by ne_countries()

get_data(scale = 110, type = c("countries", "map_units", "sovereignty",
  "tiny_countries"))

`scale`	scale of map to return, one of `110`, `50`, `10`, `'small'`, `'medium'`, `'large'`
`type`	country type, one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'sovereignty', 'tiny_countries'

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object.

World Map Data from Natural Earth

v0.1.0

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Andy South [aut, cre]

Initial release