get_boundaries: download vecor of administrative boundaries

In IREA-CNR-MI/sprawl: sprawl: Spatial Processing (in) R: Advanced Workflows Library

Description

function to download administrative boundaries data from the gadm archive, starting from a country name or ISO code, and the level of desired administrative units

Usage

get_boundaries(iso, level = 1, path = NULL, makefold = TRUE)

Arguments

iso	character iso name or 2/3 digits code of the country
level	numeric level of administrative units returned, default: 0 (Country Level)
path	character
makefold	character

Details

the function is a simple wrapper to the raster::getData function, with a-priori checks on country name or ISO code

Value

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame containing the desired data

See Also

getData

Examples

## Not run: 
 library(sprawl)
 library(sp)
 ita_boundaries <- get_boundaries("Italy", 0)
 ita_region_boundaries <- get_boundaries("ITA", 1)
 plot(ita_region_boundaries)
 
## End(Not run)

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