Get natural earth world country polygons
returns world country polygons at a specified scale, or points of tiny_countries
ne_countries(scale = 110, type = "countries", continent = NULL,
country = NULL, geounit = NULL, sovereignty = NULL,
returnclass = c("sp", "sf"))scale |
scale of map to return, one of |
type |
country type, one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'sovereignty', 'tiny_countries' |
continent |
a character vector of continent names to get countries from. |
country |
a character vector of country names. |
geounit |
a character vector of geounit names. |
sovereignty |
a character vector of sovereignty names. |
returnclass |
'sp' default or 'sf' for Simple Features |
SpatialPolygonsDataFrame,SpatialPointsDataFrame or sf
spdf_world <- ne_countries()
spdf_africa <- ne_countries(continent = 'africa')
spdf_france <- ne_countries(country = 'france')
if (require(sp)) {
plot(spdf_world)
plot(spdf_africa)
plot(spdf_france)
}
# get as sf
if (require(sf)) {
sf_world <- ne_countries(returnclass='sf')
plot(sf_world)
}
if (require(rnaturalearthdata) & require(sp)) {
spdf_tiny_countries <- ne_countries(type = 'tiny_countries', scale = 50)
plot(spdf_tiny_countries)
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