africapitals: African capital city points
In afrimapr/afrilearndata: Small Africa Map Datasets for Learning

Description Usage Format Source Examples

a sf object points of African capital cities See data-raw/afrilearndata-creation.R for how the data object is created.

1	africapitals

Formal class 'sf'; 50 rows 5 columns

capitalname character vector capital city names
countryname character vector country names
pop numeric estimated population 2006
iso3c character vector ISO 3 letter country code
geometry sfc_POINT

Geographical coordinates WGS84 datum (CRS EPSG 4326)

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/maps/

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(africapitals)
  # or
  filename <- system.file("extdata","africapitals.gpkg", package="afrilearndata", mustWork=TRUE)
  africapitals <- sf::read_sf(filename)

  #plot(sf::st_geometry(africapitals))
}