ne_find_vector_data: Return a dataframe of available vector layers on Natural...

In rnaturalearth: World Map Data from Natural Earth

Return a dataframe of available vector layers on Natural Earth

Description

Checks the Natural Earth Github repository for current vector layers and provides the file name required in the type argument of ne_download.

Usage

ne_find_vector_data(
  scale = 110,
  category = c("cultural", "physical"),
  getmeta = FALSE
)

Arguments

scale	The scale of map to return, one of '110', '50', '10' or 'small', 'medium', 'large'.
category	one of natural earth categories : 'cultural', 'physical'
getmeta	whether to get url of the metadata for each layer

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if 'load = FALSE'.

Value

dataframe with two variables: layer and metadata

See Also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.

Examples

## Not run: 
ne_find_vector_data(scale = 10, category = "physical")

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