countries_polys: Downloads Spatial Data with the World Countries Polygons and...

In mcmventura/stlocationqc: C3S Quality Control of Meteorological Stations Location

Description

Downloads from Natural Earth two shapefiles - 10 m and 50 m precision - with the world countries polygons and transforms them into two SpatialPolygonsDataFrame that are saved in a folder called 'polys', inside the user's working directory. The data that they contain is necessary for the functions get_country and get_country_shoreline.

Usage

countries_polys()

Details

The two SpatialPolygonsDataFrame are saved in the working directory, inside the 'polys' folder as .rda files and they are loaded from there when running the functions get_country and get_country_shoreline.

Shapefiles:

• http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.zip

• http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/50m/cultural/ne_50m_admin_0_countries.zip

Shapefiles metadata:

• http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-0-countries/

• http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-admin-0-countries-2/

References

Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.

mcmventura/stlocationqc documentation built on May 24, 2019, 11:43 p.m.