getGADM: Get Geographic Adminitrative Unit

In forestChange: Computing Essential Biodiversity Variables from Global Forest Change Data

Description

This function is a wrapper of getData used to import levels in Geographic Administrative Units (GADM).

Usage

getGADM(unit.nm = NULL, level = 2, country = "COL")

Arguments

unit.nm	character or NULL. Name of an administrative unit (e.g. municipality), or the name of such a name plus its corresponding higher-level unit (e.g. department/state). If NULL then a list of unit names is printed.
level	numeric. A number between zero and two, indicating any of the levels of administrative subdivisions in GADM: 0=country, 1=first level of subdivision, and 2=second level of subdivision).
country	character. ISO code specifying a country. Default 'COL'

Value

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame or character vector of GADM units..

Author(s)

Wilson Lara <[e-mail]>, Victor Gutierrez-Velez <[e-mail]>

References

https://gadm.org/

Examples

## Printing municipalities of Colombia:    
 
     muni <- getGADM()
     head(muni)
 

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