ne_states: Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons

In ropenscilabs/rnaturalearth: World Map Data from Natural Earth

Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons

Description

returns state polygons (administrative level 1) for specified countries

Usage

ne_states(
  country = NULL,
  geounit = NULL,
  iso_a2 = NULL,
  spat_object = NULL,
  returnclass = c("sf", "sv")
)

Arguments

country	a character vector of country names.
geounit	a character vector of geounit names.
iso_a2	a character vector of iso_a2 country codes
spat_object	an optional alternative states map
returnclass	A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from 'sf', the default) or "sv" for a 'SpatVector' (from 'terra').

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if 'load = FALSE'.

Value

An object of class 'sf' for simple feature (from 'sf', the default) or 'SpatVector' (from 'terra').

See Also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.

Examples

# comparing using country and geounit to filter
if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthhires")) {
  spdf_france_country <- ne_states(country = "france")
  spdf_france_geounit <- ne_states(geounit = "france")

  plot(spdf_france_country)
  plot(spdf_france_geounit)

  plot(ne_states(country = "united kingdom"))
  plot(ne_states(geounit = "england"))
}

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