data-raw/map-raw.R

In bcgov/wqbc: Tidy Water Quality Data and Calculate Thresholds for British Columbia

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## This script pulls the national and provincial base maps from the Govt of Canada Open Data site,
## available at: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/f77c2027-ed4a-5f6e-9395-067af3e9fc1e
## under the Open Government License - Canada version 2.0 (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
## The data is saved in data-raw/map

map_zip <- "data-raw/map/map.zip"
map_dir <- "data-raw/map"

## Download the zipfile and unzip:
download.file("http://ftp2.cits.rncan.gc.ca/pub/geott/atlas/base/7.5m_g_shp.zip", destfile = map_zip)

unzip(map_zip, exdir = map_dir)