getCountry: Return country names at specified locations

In MazamaSpatialUtils: Spatial Data Download and Utility Functions

Return country names at specified locations

Description

Uses spatial comparison to determine which country polygons the locations fall into and returns the country name for those polygons.

Specification of countryCodes limits spatial searching to the specified countries and greatly improves performance.

If allData = TRUE, additional data is returned.

Usage

getCountry(
  longitude = NULL,
  latitude = NULL,
  datasetName = "SimpleCountriesEEZ",
  countryCodes = NULL,
  allData = FALSE,
  useBuffering = FALSE
)

Arguments

longitude	Vector of longitudes in decimal degrees East.
latitude	Vector of latitudes in decimal degrees North.
datasetName	Name of spatial dataset to use.
countryCodes	Vector of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes.
allData	Logical specifying whether a full dataframe should be returned.
useBuffering	Logical flag specifying the use of location buffering to find the nearest polygon if no target polygon is found.

Value

Vector of English language country names.

References

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/

See Also

SimpleCountries

getSpatialData

Examples

library(MazamaSpatialUtils)

longitude <- seq(0, 50)
latitude <- seq(0, 50)

getCountry(longitude, latitude)

MazamaSpatialUtils documentation built on Sept. 8, 2023, 5:22 p.m.