Get_Shapefile: Download the shapefiles of Italian NUTS-3 and LAU...

In SchoolDataIT: Retrieve, Harmonise and Map Open Data Regarding the Italian School System

Download the shapefiles of Italian NUTS-3 and LAU administrative units

Description

Downloads either the boundaries or the centroids of the relevant administrative units, either provinces or municipalities, from the ISTAT website. Geometries are expressed in meters.

Usage

Get_Shapefile(
  Year,
  level = "LAU",
  lightShp = TRUE,
  autoAbort = FALSE,
  centroids = FALSE
)

Arguments

Year	Numeric. Reference year for the administrative units.
level	Character. Either "LAU"/"Municipality", "NUTS-3"/"Province", "NUTS-2"/"Region", . "LAU" by default
lightShp	Logical. If TRUE, the function downloads a generalised, i.e.less detailed, and lighter version of the shapefiles. TRUE by default.
autoAbort	Logical. Whether to automatically abort the operation and return NULL in case of missing internet connection or server response errors. FALSE by default.
centroids	Logical. Whether to switch from polygon geometry to point geometry. In the latter case, the point is located at the centroid of the relevant area. FALSE by default.

Value

A spatial data frame of class data.frame and sf.

Source

<https://www.istat.it/it/archivio/222527>

Examples

  library(magrittr)


  Prov23_shp <- Get_Shapefile(2023, lightShp = TRUE, level = "NUTS-3", autoAbort = TRUE)
  ggplot2::ggplot() + ggplot2::geom_sf(data = Prov23_shp) +
    ggplot2::ggtitle("Italian provinces in 2023/01/01")
 

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