addBorders: add country and Bundesland borders to a map

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add country and Bundesland borders to a map

Description

add country and Bundesland borders to a map

Usage

addBorders(de = "grey80", eu = "black", add = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

de	Color for Bundeslaender lines. NA to suppress. DEFAULT: "grey80"
eu	Color for countries lines. NA to suppress. DEFAULT: "black"
add	Logical: add to existing plot? DEFAULT: TRUE
...	Further arguments passed to terra::plot()

Details

# Use the SpatVectors directly with:
DEU <- terra::vect(system.file("extdata/DEU.gpkg", package="rdwd"))
EUR <- terra::vect(system.file("extdata/EUR.gpkg", package="rdwd"))

# Obtained with the code:
url <- "https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/distribution/v2/nuts/shp/NUTS_RG_03M_2021_4326_LEVL_1.shp.zip"
tf <- tempfile(fileext=".zip")
download.file(url, tf) # 0.9 MB # in 2023-06 error 'Transferred a partial file'
unzip(tf, exdir="misc/vign") ; rm(url, tf)

DEU <- terra::vect("misc/vign/NUTS_RG_03M_2021_4326_LEVL_1.shp")
library(terra) # for bracket method
DEU <- DEU[DEU$CNTR_CODE=="DE","NUTS_NAME"]
terra::writeVector(DEU, "inst/extdata/DEU.gpkg", overwrite=TRUE)

url <- "https://gisco-services.ec.europa.eu/distribution/v2/nuts/shp/NUTS_RG_03M_2021_4326_LEVL_0.shp.zip"
tf <- tempfile(fileext=".zip")
download.file(url, tf) # 0.7 MB # in 2023-06 error 'Transferred a partial file'
unzip(tf, exdir="misc/vign") ; rm(url, tf)

EUR <- terra::vect("misc/vign/NUTS_RG_03M_2021_4326_LEVL_0.shp")
EUR <- terra::crop(EUR, c(-11,25, 40,60))
EUR <- EUR[,"NUTS_NAME"]
terra::writeVector(EUR, "inst/extdata/EUR.gpkg", overwrite=TRUE)

Value

invisible list with DEU and EUR

Author(s)

Berry Boessenkool, [e-mail], Aug 2019, June 2023

See Also

plotRadar, website raster chapter

Examples

if(requireNamespace("terra", quietly=TRUE)){
plot(1, xlim=c(2,16), ylim=c(47,55))
addBorders()
addBorders(add=FALSE)
plot(1, xlim=c(2,16), ylim=c(47,55))
addBorders(de="orange", eu=NA)
}

rdwd documentation built on Aug. 18, 2025, 5:22 p.m.