loadCoordUK: Get United Kingdom coordinates

In mapping: Automatic Download, Linking, Manipulating Coordinates for Maps

Get United Kingdom coordinates

Description

Loads and returns names, id, and coordinates for United Kingdom statistical unit, to use with mapping functions and other "map" functions that accept an sf object.

Usage

loadCoordUK(unit = c("country", "county"), 
            year = c("2020", "2019"), scale = c("500", "20"), 
            unit_subset = NULL, matchWith = NULL, dir = NULL, 
            use_cache = TRUE, use_internet = TRUE, crs = NULL)

Arguments

unit	the type of Italian statistical unit to link
year	year of the analysis
scale	the scale of the map
unit_subset	character vector of unit names to extract
matchWith	the type of id
dir	local directory in which shape files are stored
use_cache	a logical value indicating whether to use the cache
use_internet	a logical value indicating wheter the coordinates are downloaded from https://github.com/dataallaround/geospatial. If FALSE the maps downloaded during package installation will be used
crs	coordinate reference system. Look at st_crs

Details

Coordinates are download from the Github repo https://github.com/dataallaround/geospatial from UK folder https://github.com/dataallaround/geospatial/tree/master/UK.

If unit is not specified, country borders are loaded.

Value

A data.frame object with column indicating names, id, and the geometry to map.

Author(s)

Alessio Serafini

References

https://github.com/dataallaround/geospatial

See Also

loadCoordEU, loadCoordWR, loadCoordUS, loadCoordDE

Examples

UK_coords = loadCoordUK(unit = "country", year = "2020")
str(UK_coords)




## Load subset

coords_uk <- loadCoordUK(unit = "county", unit_subset = "england", matchWith = "country")
coords_uk <- loadCoordUK(unit = "county", unit_subset = "hartlepool", matchWith = "county")

mapping documentation built on Oct. 19, 2023, 5:06 p.m.