raster packageMap of German states (Bundeslaender) from GADM through the raster package
Formal class 'SpatialPolygons' (package "sp") with 4 slots
Use directly with:
load(system.file("extdata/DEU.rda", package="rdwd"))
Obtained with the code:
DEU1 <- raster::getData("GADM", country="DEU", level=1)
DEU <- rgeos::gSimplify(DEU1, tol=0.02, topologyPreserve=FALSE)
raster::plot(DEU1)
raster::plot(DEU)
save(DEU, file="inst/extdata/DEU.rda")
tools::resaveRdaFiles("inst/extdata/DEU.rda")