africountries: African country boundaries
In afrimapr/afrilearndata: Small Africa Map Datasets for Learning

Description Usage Format Source See Also Examples

a sf object containing low resolution African country boundaries See data-raw/afrilearndata-creation.R for how the data object is created.

1	africountries

Formal class 'sf'; 51 rows, 8 columns

name character vector country names
name_long character vector country names long
pop_est numeric estimated population
gdp_md_est numeric estimated gdp
lastcensus numeric year of last census
income_grp character vector income group
iso_a3 character vector ISO 3 letter country code
geometry sfc_MULTIPOLYGON
name_fr character vector French country names
name_pt character vector Portuguese country names
name_af character vector Afrikaans country names
name_sw character vector Swahili country names

Geographical coordinates WGS84 datum (CRS EPSG 4326)

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/

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

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(africountries)
  # or
  filename <- system.file("extdata","africountries.shp", package="afrilearndata", mustWork=TRUE)
  africountries <- sf::read_sf(filename)#'
  plot(sf::st_geometry(africountries))
}