read_shp: Import ESRI shapefiles into R

In flaneuse/frontier: Helper Functions for Spatial Processing and Mapping

Description

Import shapefile into an R spatial polygons object. Useful for plotting within the leaflet package, or for downstream use to convert into a series of lat/lon coordinates.

Usage

read_shp(baseDir = getwd(), folderName = NULL, layerName)

Arguments

baseDir	string containing the name of the base directotry containing the shapefile
folderName	(optional) string containing the name of the folder within baseDir containing the shapefile. Not required if baseDir contains the full name of the folder containing the shapefile
layerName	string containing the name of the shapefile, e.g. 'district_boundary' for 'district_boundary.shp'. Should not include '.shp'

Author(s)

Laura Hughes, [e-mail]

flaneuse/frontier documentation built on May 16, 2019, 1:17 p.m.