DEplotting (version 0.1.0)

load_geodata: Load Processed Geodata

Description

Loads shapefiles of states (Länder: LAN), districts (Kreise, kreisfreie Städte: KRS), and municipalities (Gemeinde: GEM) for a given year. The shapefiles are processed and assigned to the global environment as vg250_lan, vg250_krs, and vg250_gem. This function is useful if you want to use the shapefiles with other R packages to plot your data.

Usage

load_geodata(year)

Value

No return value. This function assigns the spatial datasets vg250_lan, vg250_krs, and vg250_gem to the global environment using <<-.

Arguments

year

Integer. The year of geodata to load (must be between 1998 and 2022).

Examples

# \donttest{
# Load the geodata from year 2015 into the R environment
load_geodata(year = 2015)
# }