world10: World Map (Natural Earth data)

In adeckmyn/mapdataNE: Map databases from the Natural Earth project.

Description

These are data sets derived from the "Natural Earth" data project. They provide natural and political boundaries updated up to 2013. world10 is a high resolution (scale 1/10m) data base of political borders. world50 has a slightly lower resolution (50m), making it more appropriate for large areas.

Usage

data(world10MapEnv)

Format

The data file is in fact an assignment specifying the name of an environment variable which contains the base location of the binary files used by the map drawing functions. This environment variable (R_MAPDATANE_DATA_DIR for the datasets in the mapdataNE package) is set when the package is loaded.

Source

The data used for the preparation of this library were obtained from http://www.naturalearthdata.com.

References

Richard A. Becker, and Allan R. Wilks, "Maps in S", AT\&T Bell Laboratories Statistics Research Report [93.2], 1993.

Richard A. Becker, and Allan R. Wilks, "Constructing a Geographical Database", AT\&T Bell Laboratories Statistics Research Report [95.2], 1995.

See Also

map, world

Examples

map('world10', 'Belgium')
title('Belgium')

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