AKboundary: A boundary file for Alaska, USA

In jayverhoef/ZVHdata: Data Sets for Spatial Linear Models for Environmental Data

A boundary file for Alaska, USA

Description

A boundary file for Alaska, USA, of object type sf from sf package.

Usage

data(AKboundary)

Format

A sf object. The projection is in Alaska Albers, EPSG:3338.

Source

Shapefile downloaded from

link to: Shapefile of 50 US States hosted by ArcGIS. Imported to R with the rgdal package as a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object from package sp, subsetted to just the Alaska polygon, and then simplified to a SpatialPolygons object. The code that creates the data file from the raw data can be found at system.file("raw data/polyMaps/create_AKboundary.R",package = "ZVHdata"). It was subsequently converted to sf using st_as_sf function.

Examples

library(ZVHdata)
library(sf)
data(AKboundary)
summary(AKboundary)
plot(AKboundary)

jayverhoef/ZVHdata documentation built on Oct. 22, 2022, 8:35 p.m.