hexify_world: Simplified World Map
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hexify_world R Documentation
Simplified World Map
Description
A lightweight sf object containing simplified world country borders,
suitable for use as a basemap when visualizing hexagonal grids.
Usage
hexify_world
Format
An sf object with 177 features and 15 fields:
- name
Country short name
- name_long
Country full name
- admin
Administrative name
- sovereignt
Sovereignty
- iso_a2
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
- iso_a3
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
- iso_n3
ISO 3166-1 numeric code
- continent
Continent name
- region_un
UN region
- subregion
UN subregion
- region_wb
World Bank region
- pop_est
Population estimate
- gdp_md
GDP in millions USD
- income_grp
Income group classification
- economy
Economy type
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry in 'WGS84' (EPSG:4326)
Source
Simplified from Natural Earth 1:110m Cultural Vectors
(https://www.naturalearthdata.com/)
Examples
library(sf)
# Plot the built-in world map
plot(st_geometry(hexify_world), col = "lightgray", border = "white")
# Filter by continent
europe <- hexify_world[hexify_world$continent == "Europe", ]
plot(st_geometry(europe))
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Simplified World Map
Description
A lightweight sf object containing simplified world country borders, suitable for use as a basemap when visualizing hexagonal grids.
Usage
hexify_world
Format
An sf object with 177 features and 15 fields:
- name
Country short name
- name_long
Country full name
- admin
Administrative name
- sovereignt
Sovereignty
- iso_a2
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
- iso_a3
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
- iso_n3
ISO 3166-1 numeric code
- continent
Continent name
- region_un
UN region
- subregion
UN subregion
- region_wb
World Bank region
- pop_est
Population estimate
- gdp_md
GDP in millions USD
- income_grp
Income group classification
- economy
Economy type
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry in 'WGS84' (EPSG:4326)
Source
Simplified from Natural Earth 1:110m Cultural Vectors (https://www.naturalearthdata.com/)
Examples
library(sf)
# Plot the built-in world map
plot(st_geometry(hexify_world), col = "lightgray", border = "white")
# Filter by continent
europe <- hexify_world[hexify_world$continent == "Europe", ]
plot(st_geometry(europe))
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