MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.6.4)

convertWorldEEZ: Convert World Exclusive Economic Zones Boundaries Shapefile

Description

A world EEZ 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

convertWorldEEZ(nameOnly = FALSE)

Arguments

nameOnly

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

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

References

http://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php

See Also

setSpatialDataDir

getCountry, getCountryCode