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setMapExtents

Internal function allowing map extents to be set from area names

Description

Allows map extents to be set from country or area names (e.g. India, Africa )

Usage

setMapExtents(mapRegion = "world")

Arguments

mapRegion

a country name from getMap()[['NAME']] or one of 'eurasia','africa','latin america','uk','oceania','asia'

Details

Can be called by mapCountryData and mapGriddedData

Value

a dataframe containing we,ea,so,no values in degrees between -180 & +180

Author(s)

andy south

Examples

mapCountryData( mapRegion='Africa' )
mapCountryData( mapRegion='India' )
rworldmap

Mapping Global Data

v1.3-6
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Andy South
Initial release
2016-02-03

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