getRegionalData: getRegionalData
In sarahsupp/growR: Geographic Regions of the World in R

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

View source: R/getRegionalData.R

getRegions Gets regional information for your dataset, depending on the realm of interest. #' Code is modified and extended from @jebyrnes package meowR https://github.com/jebyrnes/meowR.

1 2	getRegionalData(Longitude, Latitude, realm = c("Marine", "Terrestrial", "Freshwater", "IPBES", "Hotspot"))

`realm`	"Marine", "Terrestrial", "Freshwater", "IPBES", "Hotspot"
`lats`	Latitude values in decimal degrees
`longs`	Longitude values in decimal degrees

Returns a data frame of geographic regions for each point

seealso sp::over

Sarah Supp, Shane Blowes.

data(regions)

latlong <- data.frame(lat = c(50.0944444, 33.4691667, 34.0348833, 
     55.0869876, 51.7787776, 
     49.6088889, -35.750729),
     long=c(-127.55889, -119.53028, 
     -119.70308, -161.87444, 
     178.30199, -126.78056, 150.259155))
     
regionalData <- getRegionalData(latlong$lat, latlong$long, realm="Marine")

newdata <- cbind(latlong, regionalData)

newdata