MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.6.4)

convertTerrestrialEcoregions: Convert Terrestrial Ecoregion Shapefile

Description

A shapefile is downloaded and converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir()

Usage

convertTerrestrialEcoregions(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)

Arguments

nameOnly

logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file

simplify

logical specifying whether to create a "_05" version of the file that is simplified to 5%

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

References

https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world