In Robinlovelace/ukborders:

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "README-"
)

ukboundaries

The goal of ukboundaries is to ease access to official geographic UK data. As some in the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial community (FOSS4G) would say: "geo for all"!

This data is provided under the terms of the Open Government Licence. See https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/licences for further details.

Installation

You can install ukboundaries from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("robinlovelace/ukboundaries")

Data sources

An up-to-date list of data sources - each of which typically corresponds to a geographic object representing boundaries of some type - is kept in the file inst/extdata/data_sources.csv. This system file is installed with the package and can be read at any time, e.g. with:

f = system.file("extdata", "data_sources.csv", package = "ukboundaries")
data_sources = readr::read_csv(f)

You can see the contents, e.g. with:

head(data_sources)

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(ukboundaries)
lsoas <- getsubgeographies("E09000001", "LSOA11") # get LSOAs in City of London
spatialdata <- getspatialdata(lsoas, "Boundaries", "GeneralisedClipped") # get shapefile
plot(spatialdata$geometry)
#plot(msoa2011_vsimple)