getBBox: Get bounding box

View source: R/Maps.R

getBBoxR Documentation

Get bounding box

Description

Get bounding box from a geographical description

Usage

getBBox(bbox = "World")

Arguments

bbox

character, bounding box as a geographical description. Available:

  1. 'All','World' (Antartica removed for the latter)

  2. Continents: 'Africa','America','Asia', Europe', 'Oceania'.

  3. Continental regions: 'SouthAmerica', 'CentralAmerica', 'NorthAmerica', 'WesternEurope', 'Mediterranean'.

  4. Oceans: 'Atlantic','Indian','Pacific'.

  5. Oceanic regions: 'NorthAtlantic','SouthAtlantic','IndianPacific'.

  6. Countries: 'Australia','NewZealand','France'.

Value

a vector of size 4 (minlon, maxlon, minlat, maxlat), or NULL if the region is not available.

Examples

getBBox('SouthAtlantic')
getBBox('Europe')
getBBox('Mediterranean')
getBBox('NewZealand')

benRenard/BFunk documentation built on July 20, 2022, 7:07 a.m.